Wes Moore
Appearances
NPR News Now
NPR News: 11-11-2024 3PM EST
Today, it's Ms. Tubman that brought us together. And so she is doing in death what she did in life.
Pivot
Trump's Movie Tariffs, Buffett's Retirement, and Elon's New City
We have over 260,000 federal employees in the state of Maryland. We have over 160,000 federal jobs that are housed within the state of Maryland. So what they are doing, these are not glancing blows at Maryland. These are direct hits at us. These are direct shots.
Pivot
Trump's Movie Tariffs, Buffett's Retirement, and Elon's New City
that they are taking at at my state and they're taking it my people and so there is nobody who is experiencing this more than maryland no one is no chief executive who's experiencing more than me and the thing i was very clear on uh from jump street is that i will i i get the relationship between state government and federal government and i will work with anyone but i will bow down to no one ever
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
Let's play it. What we're seeing right now is just a level of chaos that is just staggering, that we're seeing a whole flurry of executive orders, some of which are performative. some of which have no thought behind them. And some of them are just unlawful and unconstitutional.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
And so you have a lot of people who are scared all throughout our state from Western Maryland to the Eastern Shore about what they're doing. The thing that we've assured the people of our state is that we are going to meet this moment of crisis with courage.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
Trump Gets Destroyed by Dem Govs in Public
We are going to be unafraid to step up and defend the people of our state against any type of threat that comes to their livelihood or their way of life.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
For what? This is not a game. And you're playing with people's lives. And I think about where our largest trade partner is Canada, for example. We've got $3 billion of exports that we do with Canada every single year. This past weekend, I was speaking with a Canadian ambassador.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
and almost doing essentially my own independent diplomacy with our trade partner because that level of diplomacy coming from the federal government is now non-existent and it's now almost playful this is serious stuff because this is impacting our businesses which turns around and impacts our neighborhoods which turn around and impact our families which turn around and impact our children
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 3/21/25
This is not a game. And the really frustrating thing about it for me is we have people who are in very serious positions who are not serious people.