Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says Democrats should seek bipartisan agreements with the White House, including on immigration, despite his distrust of newly elevated chief of staff Stephen Miller.

Moore, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, told POLITICO’s Alex Burns on Tuesday that Miller was “the architect of some of the most racist, xenophobic, homophobic policies that we have.” Even so, the governor said he saw an opportunity to negotiate measures that would ease the targeting of immigrants living in the United States without authorization.

“One thing I’ve always said to the people of my state is I will work with anybody, I will bow to nobody,” Moore said at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s B20 Summit.

Moore said he wished the White House had a different team, calling the “well of distrust” fostered by Miller and his policies “deeply poisonous.” But he added that officials still had a responsibility to deliver for their communities and that there was a window to do so.

His comments followed shifting signals from President Donald Trump about immigration. In a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday, Trump raised the possibility of a bipartisan deal and acknowledged that the aggressive deportation policies enacted early in his term were “too tough” and “took people that had good jobs.” On Monday, however, he told reporters he opposed offering “amnesty” to undocumented immigrants.

Voters have long expressed concern that Trump’s mass deportation campaign is too aggressive. Some congressional Republicans have blamed Miller, a principal architect of the policy, for lost support among Hispanic voters during the midterm cycle.

Moore, the Democratic chair of the National Governors Association, also identified artificial intelligence safety as an area for bipartisan cooperation. He urged the incoming Democratic-controlled Congress to establish federal rules for AI companies, including “protections on our pocketbooks” and safeguards addressing workforce development and infrastructure.

Much of the regulatory work has so far been left to states, while congressional Democrats are considering several consumer safety measures amid growing public concern about the technology.

“It’s not useful to have 50 different guidelines for how this country should think about this,” Moore said. “We need Washington to get in the game.”