Steve Inskeep

He's been collaborative, whatever the president may have said.

Another bridge that's needing rebuilding.

I want to ask about bipartisanship.

You and I shared a stage recently with a couple of your fellow governors, one of whom was Kevin Stitt, Republican of Oklahoma, very conservative.

And he made a statement that you agreed with.

He said that the government should promote equal opportunity, not equal outcomes, which in my mind is a line that is used as sometimes a jab against progressives.

But you agreed with it.

Why?

Including some people in your party, would you say?

Meaning that people should approach things differently.

I'm curious, as I listen to you, Marylanders will know that you just had to deal with closing a budget deficit or that lawmakers did.

You have big deficits in your future.

Education is part of the reason.

Is the very education program you described part of the problem or part of the challenge?

I want to ask you about another potential point of bipartisan agreement that might surprise people.

Elon Musk recently was asked why he had not given away more of his hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth.

And he was quoted as saying, I don't think that money can be given away very effectively.

He didn't think philanthropy works.

You and I were just talking before this interview about your own skepticism about philanthropy.

You are implicitly criticizing a lot of organizations by what you're saying.