Wes Moore

And I don't care if it happens to be the president of the United States.

I have no desire to get into a back and forth with the president.

I just want to make sure that the president understands that fighting for Americans means fighting for Marylanders too.

Well, because I can't speak to the president's heart.

I can't speak to what he feels or what he says behind closed doors when I or others are not around.

But I can speak to his actions, and I can speak to how his actions hit.

members of our community, members of the black community.

And I know that when I'm watching him do things like cutting scholarships and grants for HBCUs intentionally, when I'm watching him do the greatest assault on black female employment in the past year that we have seen in our nation's history,

When I'm watching doing things like saying that our history doesn't matter or that 8A programs should be canceled or that our books should be banned, I can tell you that his actions are speaking a whole lot louder than maybe he understands or realize about does he really support every community in this country or does he support the friends he's giving tax cuts to while the rest of us just end up carrying the bag for the rest of his policies.

Well, I know we're going to attend all the variety of things that's taking place with the other governors.

The NGA is one of one.

It serves a very unique role where it's the only place where you watch our nation's governors, both Democratic and Republican governors, come together to discuss real issues and real topics.

And I'm proud that I was elected by my peers to serve as vice chair of the organization.

We will continue all the traditions of being able to make sure that we're spending time together, getting to know each other, Republicans and Democrats, and work together.

But none of us are interested in attending a reality television show set.

And we also know that if you are excluding individuals

part of our organization, then that means you are excluding the organization and the organization as a whole, the NGA, will not participate in something that all the governors are not invited to.

No.

If all the governors are not invited to, there is no NGA breakfast.

That is just the president deciding who he wants to invite.