Few issues are extra authentically Washington than a fly-in. As in, the good capital custom of getting folks from all 50 states into city and unleashing them on the halls of Congress for a couple of days of lobbying.
This week, the group exhibiting as much as have their voices heard isn’t native farm bureaus, chambers of commerce or realtors associations. It’s the governors who’re right here for the Nationwide Governors Affiliation’s winter assembly. And the Republicans and Democrats attending have rather a lot to speak about.
The person answerable for the NGA is Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who has taken quite a lot of unconventional stances on the problems in his two phrases as governor, and through his Congressional profession earlier than that.
However Polis has some large fish to fry this week. He and his fellow governors are within the robust place of responding to the quick tempo of policymaking coming from Trump, the place points like tariffs and immigration enforcement are about to have tangible results on their constituents, and potential funding cuts from reconciliation could also be across the nook.
Playbook’s Eugene Daniels taped an episode of the Deep Dive podcast with Polis at POLITICO’s Governor’s Summit on Thursday. They mentioned Polis’ ideas on all of those controversial points in addition to how he thinks Democrats ought to stroll the road in relation to working with Trump versus opposing him; how Polis thinks Trump is hurting himself; and what the very first thing Elon Musk and DOGE ought to lower is.
