February 25th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

Governor Wes Moore’s Chief of Staff Fagan Harris testified Monday in the House Public Safety and Administrative Committee on cuts the Department of Legislative Services is recommending in regards to the state’s federal governmental affairs contract.  Harris said the governor’s office concurs that the cut of $480,000 should be made but will instead fund it with savings from unfilled open positions in the administration. Harris said the government affairs program is crucial to keeping billions in funding for facilities like Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground in place…

  

“Our kind of strategy here is that we need to bring as much resource, and as much connectivity and as much savvy and sophistication to our approach with dealing with those federal partners so we can protect as much of our incumbent federal investment and now grow it in the new climate.”