What topics did Gov Bob Ferguson and Tim Walz discuss at the 2025 luncheon?

1. No sourced record of a Ferguson–Walz 2025 luncheon

Search results you provided include numerous items about Tim Walz (town halls, DNC speech, fraud investigations) but nothing in these documents records a 2025 luncheon between Gov. Bob Ferguson and Gov. Tim Walz or a published agenda from such a meeting. Therefore any claim about what they discussed at a luncheon is not supported by the available reporting (not found in current reporting).

2. What Tim Walz has been publicly discussing in 2024–25

When trying to infer likely topics, the articles show Walz repeatedly raising alarms about “Project 2025” during the 2024 campaign and beyond, framing it as a threat to rights and federal institutions — language he used on the debate stage and at the Democratic National Convention ^{[1] [5] [2]}. After the campaign, Walz told MPR he planned to propose anti-fraud measures and emphasized working with lawmakers in a divided government ^[3].

3. Fraud, federal scrutiny and the most-covered agenda item

From late 2025 reporting in your set, Walz has been the subject of intense scrutiny over alleged widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services and pandemic-era programs; that story prompted House Oversight letters and federal investigations, and Republicans have seized on it politically ^{[4] [6]}. Coverage documents investigations, calls for documents from Chairman Comer and commentary linking the issue to Walz’s pending policy responses ^{[4] [6]}.

4. Bob Ferguson: reporting gaps and why that matters

The provided results do not include substantive coverage of Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson’s activities or policy priorities in 2024–25, so any attempt to list topics he might have raised at a hypothetical luncheon would be speculative. Available sources do not mention Ferguson’s presence in the reporting corpus you supplied (not found in current reporting).

5. How to responsibly read gaps: plausible topics vs. evidence

Given Walz’s public emphasis on Project 2025, anti-fraud reforms and intergovernmental friction with federal agencies, those topics would plausibly appear on his meeting agenda; but plausibility is not proof. The sources show Walz spoke publicly about Project 2025 and anti-fraud proposals, and he’s been responding to federal probes — facts that could inform a bilateral conversation, but the sources provide no direct link to a Ferguson–Walz luncheon ^{[1] [5] [3] [4]}.

6. Competing interpretations in the record

The sources reflect competing framings: Walz and allied outlets emphasize policy fixes and accountability (Walz proposing anti-fraud measures in interviews) while political opponents and conservative outlets portray the situation as administrative failure or worse, seeking investigations and political consequences ^{[3] [4] [7]}. Any summary of a private meeting would need to weigh those perspectives; the current documents supply only Walz-facing public positions and aggressive oversight from Republicans ^{[3] [4] [7]}.

7. Recommended next steps to verify the luncheon topics

To answer your original question definitively, consult primary coverage that explicitly references the luncheon: local press releases from the governors’ offices, a contemporaneous news story, a public schedule, or an event transcript. Those types of items are not present in the supplied sources; without them, factual assertions about the luncheon’s topics would be unsupported (not found in current reporting).

Limitations: All factual statements above are drawn from the documents you provided. There is no source in your set that records a 2025 luncheon between Bob Ferguson and Tim Walz or that lists its agenda; therefore this analysis does not and cannot state what was discussed at such a meeting absent additional reporting (not found in current reporting).