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By STEVEN SLOAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Nationwide Governors Affiliation stated governors from each events would be capable to meet with President Donald Trump later this month after the White Home initially prolonged invites to a enterprise assembly solely to Republicans.
“We’re happy the president will welcome governors from all 55 states and territories to the White Home,” Brandon Tatum, the group’s chief government, stated Wednesday.
It’s nonetheless unclear whether or not each governor will take part within the full White Home occasion. Trump initially deliberate to ask solely Republicans to a enterprise assembly whereas the governors are in Washington for his or her annual gathering later this month. That prompted an outcry from dozens of Democrats who stated they might boycott a dinner on the White Home in the event that they weren’t totally included on the enterprise assembly.
“If the studies are true that not all governors are invited to those occasions, which have traditionally been productive and bipartisan alternatives for collaboration, we won’t be attending the White Home dinner this 12 months,” the Democrats stated.
The dispute threatened to upend what has lengthy served as one in all Washington’s uncommon bipartisan gatherings.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who chairs the NGA, informed fellow governors on Wednesday that everybody can be invited to the assembly, based on an individual aware of the matter who spoke on situation of anonymity to debate non-public conversations. The individual stated that announcement adopted conversations between Stitt and the White Home.
The White Home didn’t instantly touch upon the assembly. On Tuesday, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated Trump has “discretion to ask anybody he needs to the White Home.”
“It’s the individuals’s home,” she stated. “It’s additionally the president’s house, so he can invite whomever he needs to dinners and occasions right here on the White Home.”
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