Gov. Wes Moore, looking to head off a looming budget shortfall in Maryland, on Wednesday detailed nearly $149 million in proposed midyear spending cuts in a spending plan that calls for no new tax increases.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore speaks during a visit to SOUTH Restaurant & Jazz Club with President Joe Biden, on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s administration is moving forward with plans for a light rail project in …
“If you’re Wes Moore, and you’re looking in the mirror — you think you see a future president looking back at you — you’ve got to think about these cuts in that perspective,” said John Dedie, a Maryland political commentator and the coordinator for Community College of Baltimore County’s political science program.
He was thrust onto the national stage in March when a freighter malfunctioned and crashed into Baltimore’s Key Bridge, toppling the span and killing six members of a construction crew. Mr. Moore oversaw a massive clean-up operation that concluded three months later with the full reopening of the Port of Baltimore, one of the nation’s busiest.
The Baltimore Banner reported that the cuts were done to accommodate a jump in enrollment for Medicaid and the state’s Child Care Scholarship Program, though the exact money needed to support the greater interest is unknown at this time.
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