Wide Open for Business: What Maryland’s $6.6 Billion Submarine Deal Really Teaches the Village
On Tuesday, October 6, a Democratic governor stood on a stage at Sparrows Point with Donald Trump and celebrated a $6.6 billion deal involving a company backed by the Trump sons’ venture capital firm — while congressional Democrats were demanding a federal investigation into that same firm’s government contracts.
Wes Moore cared more about 3,100 jobs than about the Trump’s. That is not a scandal story or a business story. It is a Maryland story — and it contains the most important lesson the government-relations village will get this year: Maryland is wide open for business. Bring the jobs, and the state will find half a billion dollars. The politics get worked out on stage.
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