Gov.-elect Tim Walz skips meeting with President Trump

WASHINGTON – Gov.-elect Tim Walz declined an invitation to join a bipartisan group of new governors in a meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

The six-term Democratic congressman stayed back in Minnesota this week to meet with transition staff and advisers, even as his counterparts from South Dakota, Wisconsin and other Midwestern states visited the White House.

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