Weissmann was chief of staff for two Democratic Senate presidents: current President Bill Ferguson and the late, longtime President Thomas V. Mike Miller, from Prince George’s County.
Congress, a Trump administration memo says, is able to decide whether it wants to pay the workers or not as part of legislation to reopen the government.
“Now is the time to have conversations about redistricting in Maryland,” Adrienne A. Jones told The Banner. “He has a ready and an eager and a willing partner in me.”
Maryland plans to use state money to fund food and cash assistance and fund state employee salaries typically paid with federal dollars as it rides out a government shutdown, Gov. Wes Moore said Wednesday.
Maryland members of Congress voted along party lines Friday as Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a plan to fund the government past Sept. 30.
Maryland failed to protect children under state care from being placed in homes where registered sex offenders lived. It’s one of numerous findings listed in an audit out Wednesday.
High-ranking, retired military officers have warned the president’s use of troops against residents politicizes an apolitical institution and erodes Americans’ trust in its military.
In a sweeping speech, Van Hollen assailed a long list of President Donald Trump’s policies and blasted his Republican colleagues for “rubber-stamping” them.
In an escalating war of words, President Donald Trump threatened to send the National Guard to Baltimore, revoke funding for rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge and questioned Gov. Wes Moore's military awards. The Democratic governor wants Trump to come see Baltimore for himself or “keep our names out of your mouth.”