Maryland Gov. Wes Moore — two months into an administration that he promised would move boldly, yet cautiously — is both racking up wins and coming up short.
The first-time politician entered office in January with ambitious goals like ending child poverty, creating new pathways to public service, and making major investments in transportation infrastructure and education.
Now in the homestretch of the annual 90-day lawmaking session in Annapolis, Moore’s first year is likely to show progress in those areas — just not all at the levels he wanted.
Lawmakers are poised to pass all 10 of the governor’s bills. But even with Moore lobbying in person and in public and with Democrats in control of both the legislative and executive ends of the lawmaking process for the first time in eight years, legislators have scaled down many of his proposals.
A plan to increase the minimum wage was slowed down and legislators gutted a key provision that would allow for automatic yearly pay hikes. Tax cuts for veterans were slimmed down by more than half. Hundreds of millions of dollars set aside in the budget for unspecified transportation funds were eliminated.
Keiffer Mitchell, a former Democratic delegate from Baltimore who became Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s chief legislative officer, said Moore has had a successful first session so far, while facing necessary pushback from “prudent” legislators.
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