Democratic frustrations are played at the National Governors Association

Colorado Springs, Colorado – A bipartite meeting generally without drama of the country’s governors took a difficult start when The Atlantic reported Before the national meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that some Democratic governors planned to hold their contributions, arguing that the NGA did not do enough to reject the alleged obstruction of President Donald Trump to the rights of the States.

The president of Democrat Governors Association (DGA), Governor Laura Kelly of Kansas, will stop paying NGA contributions from next month, a familiar source with the thought of the Governor confirmed to Fox News Digital. The Atlantic reported that the former president of the DGA and candidate for the missing vice-president, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, also plans to move away from the NGA.

Governor Wes Moore, D-MD., Who became vice-president of the NGA last weekend, told journalists on Saturday that some of the frustrations of Democratic governors concerning the efficiency of the Bipartite group are “justified”.

But a source familiar with the question, which attended the summer meeting and obtained anonymity to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital: “You cannot blame a bipartite organization for your lack of coherent messaging.”

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The President of the National Governors Association (NGA), Governor Kevin Stitt, R-Ok., (Right) and vice-president of Governor Wes Moore, D-MD., Stun hands following media availability during the summer meeting in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

Since the loss of the White House and Congress last year, the Democrats have struggled to turn to a new party leader and to transmit a coherent message.

If it is clear that Democrats reject Trump’s agenda, intestine struggles to the National Democratic Committee (DNC) and within the New York town hall race revealed the party’s disagreements on how to effectively fight against the current political prowess of the Republicans.

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Democratic Governor Jared Polis of Colorado led his last meeting as president of NGA last weekend, spending the baton of leaders to the republican governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma and incoming vice-president, Moore.

During media availability to conclude the weekend, Moore, considered a potential 2028 presidential candidateconfirmed that he had spoken with the two Democratic governors who cast a doubt about the effectiveness of the NGA.

“They have expressed some of their frustrations, and frankly, I think that some of the frustrations they have expressed are justified, because I think it is important that this organization is never the cheerleader or the heckling of a federal administration, whatever the federal administration,” said Moore.

President Donald Trump arrives on the southern lawn of the White House of Camp David on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, inc)

Although he said it was not the work of NGA Bipartite to support or reject the Trump administration, Moore said that there were “certain things that we want to make sure that the organization continues to defend”.

Walz did not respond to the requests for comments from Fox News Digital on reports and did not publish a public declaration explaining its disagreement with the Bipartite group.

A familiar source with Kelly’s thought said that the governor of Kansas will not renew his contributions to the NGA this year because the organization has not maintained its mission statement to advance and protect the rights of states.

The source said Kelly does not think that the NGA is doing enough to oppose the “dismantling of solutions based on solutions, which the NGA claims to progress and put pressure”.

The governor of Kansas Laura Kelly enters the room of the Chamber for the state of the state of the state at Kansas State Capitol on January 10, 2024 in Topeka, Kansas. (Emily Curiel / The Kansas City Star / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

However, if the NGA should demonstrate that “they are ready to defend the rights of states at the moment and to show that it is worth the use of dollars of taxpayers”, then Kelly would be interested in reassessing the members of Kansas, according to the source familiar with the thought of the governor.

According to the Atlantic report, quoting anonymous sources, Kelly and Walz thought that the NGA “had not responded enough” when the Trump administration interrupted federal funding earlier this year, while Governor Janet Mills of Maine faced Trump against organic men in women’s sports and, more recently, when Trump authorized the National Guard to California in protests Anti-ice.

But Eric Wohlschlegel, director of communications of NGA, has at the end: “Each public statement NGA is the Bipartisan consensus. So far this year, a whole declaration except one has had this consensus, and when the governors do not agree, we simply not emitting.

The outgoing President of the National Association of Governors (NGA), Governor Jared Polis, discusses the Secretary of American Education with the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon during the summer meeting of the NGA in Colorado Springs, in Colorado, Friday, July 25, 2025. (Fox News Digital / Deirdre Heavey)

The summer meeting presented discussions with two of Trump’s most controversial cabinets, the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Polis told journalists on Saturday that governors were the most concerned about education and health care, so the participation of the members of the firm created an effective forum for managers to answer their questions and deliver to their states.

WOHLSCHLEGEL underlined the bipartite exhibited at the summer meeting in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“After days of individual meetings between governors and education secretary Linda McMahon at the conference, the ministry published more than $ 5.5 billion he had retained from states.

Moore told journalists on Saturday that the NGA will continue to “show all our colleagues added value so that they are part of the NGA” and “the objective full of hope for the NGA is also the one where we can bring our friends back into the fold”.

Polis also confirmed that he had spoken with the Democratic governors of their departure from the NGA, but he did not say their frustrations towards journalists as Moore did.

“I think it is the responsibility of the organization to show the value to the governors,” added Polis. “For me, this is an easy decision. We get our value for our contributions, and I am a more effective governor because of this, and this is how the vast majority of governors feel. Of course, there will be a few on both sides of the aisle that do not, and there have always been.”

The NGA has existed as a forum for bipartite collaboration between governors since 1908.

“We should not do politics as they do in Washington, DC,” Stitt told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview at the summer meeting. “But sometimes, if you are governor who presents himself to the presidency or to a higher office, you make him political.”

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“I would say to anyone, listening, do you want your leaders to take their ball and go home just because they get angry with something?

Peter Pinedo by Fox News Digital contributed to this report.