What Dan Cox, Wes Moore are planning for Maryland’s budget surplus

With the state reporting a nearly $2 billion budget surplus last month, a critical question for Maryland’s next governor is not necessarily going to be the common refrain of how to pay, but rather, what to prioritize paying for? “The new governor of Maryland will have to figure out what to do with the huge budget surplus,” said Sunil Dasgupta, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.