Democratic Governors left out of traditional White House press conference

Democratic governors and some Republican governors who attended a meeting with President Donald Trump on Nov 27 were excluded from the traditional bipartisan press conference outside the West Wing. The nation's governors, in town for an annual conference that by tradition includes an audience with the president, visited the White House the morning of Nov 27. President Trump told governors his administration would streamline regulations, repeal the Affordable Care Act and increase spending on defense and infrastructure. After the event, Republican governors, including Gov Matt Bevin (R-KY) and Mary Fallin (R-OK), met reporters outside the White House. No Democrats were present.

Jared Leopold, a spokesman for the Democratic Governors Association, said that Democratic governors who tried to meet reporters at the "Pebble Beach" media area outside the White House were sent elsewhere. "Some of our gov's planned to go to Pebble Beach to talk to reporters and were not able to," Leopold said.