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WM Wes Moore Wes Moore Wes Moore is the Democratic governor of Maryland, with Aruna Miller as lieutenant governor.

“What the president was telling us when he was running for president wasn't that he alone could fix it. What he was telling us was that he alone could break it. And I think that there are consequences of that because when you are just deciding to break everything, there is a lot of collateral damage.”

Marketplace All-in-One · June 2026

“What the president was telling us when he was running for president wasn't that he alone could fix it. What he was telling us was that he alone could break it. And I think that there are consequences of that because when you are just deciding to break everything, there is a lot of collateral damage.” — Wes Moore, Marketplace All-in-One

Context

Moore on Marketplace Tech, answering whether his entrepreneurial background helps in office. He said entrepreneurs value speed and flexibility, and contrasted that with the Trump administration's approach.

Transcript

Marketplace All-in-One Around 18:32 into the episode
Speaker 3

…take care of an aging parent. And so I feel like we had to make adjustments to be able to respond to what people were telling us. And I do think kind of a non-political background, but an entrepreneur's background of understanding speed and flexibility has actually been helpful in this moment. The

Stephanie Hughes

idea is to move fast and not break too many things.

Speaker 3

…to wait and the ones who are being left behind, that almost becomes a generational phenomenon, that we're just being told to wait continually. We're being left behind continually. I think the challenge we've seen from some of the things, particularly we've seen from the federal government, from this, from the Trump Bance administration, is they've just decided to break everything. And I think what the president was telling us when he was running for president wasn't that he alone could fix it. What he was telling us was that he alone could break it. And I think that there are consequences of that because when you are just deciding to break everything, there is a lot of collateral damage. And unfortunately, a lot of the collateral damage have been working families, have been families like, you know, like our federal workers who live in the state of Maryland. And frankly, a lot of the collateral damage have been people who never felt like the system worked for them in the first place and it hadn't. And now they're just getting more verification of that.

Stephanie Hughes

That's Maryland's Governor Westmore. Daniel Shin produced this episode. I'm Stephanie Hughes, and that's Marketplace Tech. This is APM. The economy never stops shifting. Markets move, global trade gets disrupted, and policies shift. And all these factors have a tremendous influence on the ways we…

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