Wes Moore

Come up with better ways of supporting your renters so you're not having more people fall into homelessness.

And if people fall into homelessness, make sure it is temporary and make sure you can have more supports for them so people don't have this revolving door when it comes to homelessness, and particularly for children.

Because one of the biggest challenges you have for a child is if a child has to move around multiple times during a school year, that child is not going to learn.

And that child is not going to have a real chance of long-term academic success.

And so we've actually been really successful in driving down homelessness in our state.

Without needing $24 billion.

Without needing $24 billion.

Well, I would say give me what you need to be able to solve a problem.

And it's funny because that's very much the way I think about budgeting, period.

And it's the same way when I think about taxes, right?

I think there are people who think about taxes like it's an ideology, right?

Right?

Taxes are not an ideology.

They're a tactic.

What do you need in order to get done?

And then let's focus on actually being able to make targeted investments.

In our state, for example, you know, the four years that I've been the governor, do you know we have actually had a general fund in our state, the fund that, you know, that fund services?

You know, I've actually decreased the general fund every single year.

First time this has happened in decades where the Maryland governor for four straight years has actually decreased the size of the budget.

Because I said, tell me what works and fund that.