Wes Moore on Budget & Economy

Control spending and need more private investment

Moore: To be clear, we inherited a budget deficit. The only way that you can be able to address the fact that Maryland was wracking up the credit card and passing it on is doing two things. You need to control your spending and you need more private investment and that is what we've done. Where we've now cut the size of the general fund, controlled spending for four years in a row, we have now invited over $17 billion of private investment in the state of Maryland. So you have to control your spending, increase private investment and that is exactly what we've done.

Cox: I will cut taxes and fees. To blame the federal economy, yes there's issues there, but we are the second worst economy in the nation. Our audits demonstrated $6.18 billion questionable spending. That is where we come up with the $3 billion. We don't need to raise taxes to do that.

Trump and Bessent have wrecked this economy

Invest in transportation connecting people with opportunity

Create new financial tools to drive housing development

We can invest today while also preparing for the future

We put forward a plan to make Maryland the first state to end child poverty, AND we kept 10% in the rainy day fund. Let's put an end to the belief that we cannot invest in the future today, while also preparing for the uncertainty of tomorrow. It's Just. Not. True.

Provide Minority Business Enterprises with support

Create a resource and knowledge base to provide MBEs with assistance and best practices

Ensure MBEs have a fair shot at contracts by cracking down on the use of MBE program waivers.