Moore changes tone after encounter with Trump

Maryland governor said meeting ‘went off the rails’ when Trump entered the room

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appears to have dismissed any possibility of working with President Donald Trump after a meeting at the White House with the National Governors Association.

In a meeting with reporters Monday, Moore said an interaction between Trump and the roughly four dozen governors in attendance ended any thoughts he may have harbored about working with the president. The first-term Democrat said Maryland and other states must rise to the threat of massive layoffs and slash-and-burn federal budgeting coming from the administration.

“I come back from Washington with no illusion about what kind of partnership that this administration is trying to forge with our nation’s governors,” Moore told reporters, “and … with a clear understanding that if this first month is any indication of where things are going, we as lawmakers had better take this moment seriously and make sure that we’re moving forward.”

Moore said he believes that Trump’s efforts over the last month are just the beginning, noting that we are “18 days away from a government shutdown — a full federal government shutdown that this administration seems to not only be fine with, but actually seems to relish in its prospects.”

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