WES MOORE:
00:10:10
No. --day care without federal assistance? So many of the decisions that this White House is making, they are making with a clear understanding that no state has a budget to say, OK, well, we'll just take on health care, or we'll just take on a food insecurity. We saw that happen last year when the President of the United States broke the law in order to cut SNAP. In fact, we sued them, and we won. And we beat him in court on this. It sounds like he's going to try again, though. And he did try again. He actually tried to appeal the fact and threw a temper tantrum because he felt-- because the judges told him that actually, no, you need to pay for food assistance for people. And what we ended up doing is, in Maryland, I actually took $63 million out of our fiscal responsibility fund, which is a fund that is made up of capital gains taxes. And I said, well, I'm not going to let the people of my state go hungry because Washington is having a food fight. And so we made sure that SNAP and SNAP benefits were not going to be cut for the people of Maryland. But it is a deeply unfair to ask states and/or governors-- because we do things at the federal government has never done. We actually balance our budgets. And it is an unfair to ask us to take on what should be a joint responsibility because the federal government has decided to stop doing its job. We have to leave it there, Governor, but thank you for taking the time. Thank you. Happy Easter. Happy Easter.
