Gov. Janet Mills said she plans to attend a meeting of the nation’s governors at the White House next week after President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to exclude Democrats.

It will be the first time Mills and Trump will be in same room after clashing over transgender athletes at the same event last year.

The National Governors Association, which is hosting the get-together Feb. 19-21, distanced itself from the event earlier this week, saying that Trump had originally planned to exclude Democrats from the traditionally bipartisan meeting. Trump also planned not to invite at least two Democratic governors to a separate dinner — a move that prompted other Democrats to boycott the dinner.

Trump reversed course this week, blaming Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican and the governor’s association chairman, for misconstruing his intent. He denied in a social media post that he intended to exclude Democratic governors from the annual meeting.

Last year, Trump called out Mills during the governors’ breakfast, threatening to cut off funding if the state did not prohibit transgender athletes from playing in girls’ sports. Mills stood her ground and told Trump she’d “see you in court,” a moment that made her a national symbol of resistance.

It’s unclear whether Mills will once again be in Trump’s crosshairs. Mills recently demanded a meeting with Trump amid a surge of immigration enforcement in Maine that prompted widespread protests. She also called for the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Mills said she would be prepared “to stand up for our state and Maine people.”

“We’ve seen this president undermine the rule of law and trample on the Constitution at every turn and try to attack and intimidate those who dare to stand up to him or disagree with him – like he did to me last year,” Mills said. “I will not hesitate to stand up to him again to protect Maine.”

Last year, Trump also predicted that Mills’ refusal to follow his executive order on transgender athletes would end her political career. Now Mills is seeking the Democratic nomination to take on five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins in Maine’s U.S. Senate race. Mills is making standing up to Trump a centerpiece of her campaign.

Democrats are bullish on unseating Collins, the only New England Republican left in Congress and the only Republican running in a state won by Democrats in 2024.

Trump and Collins have had a strained relationship — even though she has been a reliable vote for the party when needed.

Trump recently said Collins and four other Republicans “should never be elected to office again” after they supported efforts to limit the use of the U.S. military in Venezuela.

But the president last week said Collins, who leads the Senate Appropriations Committee, was “doing good,” when he signed a package of spending bills she helped negotiate.