Wes Moore inherited a $5.5 billion surplus, the largest in state history, called it a “fortunate financial position,” and spent every last penny of it and then some. When the deficit he created came due, he signed the largest tax and fee hike in state history and lied to Marylanders by calling it “relief.”

It wasn’t relief. It was a shakedown.

Now Maryland faces billions in deficits as a direct result of his reckless spending, while Moore uses taxpayer-funded staff to run a national presidential campaign on your dime. He burned through a historic surplus, raised your taxes, dug Maryland deeper into the hole, and has the audacity to call it leadership.