Wes Moore

I'm not spending time on making sure they're good.

Now, are there certain policies that I just vehemently disagree with that the president is doing?

100%.

Such as?

I mean, did I disagree with it?

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, for example, what happened last year around food and SNAP and the attempt to cut SNAP for our kids, I just think that is abhorrent.

because these are children who relied on this.

And so like, for example, what we did in our state, we actually have a fund called the fiscal responsibility fund, which is primarily made of capital gains tax that we actually pulled about $63 million from that because I was like, I'm not gonna let my children go hungry because Washington DC was having a food fight.

But the thing about it is, is that while there are policies that I vehemently disagree with the president, I think we'd be foolish to not say.

But there are certain things that we have to be honest about that were good ideas and things that we want to lift up.

I mean, for a perfect example, you know, the president was able to get something done that we've been calling for for over a decade, which is essentially baby bonds.

Baby bonds, what he calls the Trump accounts, it's one of the best ways of actually being able to address things like the racial wealth gap and things like wealth gaps because if you can actually start investing in children when they're early and then have that continue to grow and materialize, it's one of the best ways of addressing things like wealth gaps.

Well, the truth is we've been fighting for that for years.

And the reality is Democratic presidents have not been able to make that happen, but Donald Trump did.

And so give credit where credit is due.

I can fight all day long on the policies that I think are backwards, don't make sense, and in some cases illegal.

However, the things that do make sense, give credit where credit is due.

And I think that's important in actually our democratic process.

Respect.