July 30th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Governor Wes Moore continues to say he was not handed a state surplus when he took office.  At the end of Larry Hogan’s term as governor, Maryland showed a surplus of over $5 billion dollars – the state now faces at least a $3 billion dollar shortfall.  However, Moore told Bret Baier of Fox News that is a myth that’s been debunked several times now…

   

“We actually turned a structural deficit which had been predicted since 2017 and was not addressed by the previous government and turned a structural deficit now into a surplus – and any surplus that we inherited was not a structural surplus, it was COVID money.”