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Wes Moore's affordability agenda: pricing, energy and housing

On Brian Tyler Cohen's No Lie, Maryland's governor separates the costs governors can influence from the global pressures they cannot control.

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0:30The popular-vote compact would activate when participating jurisdictions control enough electoral votes to guarantee the presidency.
2:38Cohen argues that Democrats should use their electoral gains to enact policy.
7:06Moore presents Maryland's passage of Question 3 on congressional redistricting as a victory for voters.
17:05Moore urges incoming Democratic officials to prioritize governance, including congressional action against Trump's tariffs.
20:00Governors cannot control global prices, Moore says, but can address surveillance pricing, affordable energy and housing.
22:35Moore argues that Vance should have opposed military interventions before offering a post-election critique.

Governors cannot set global fuel or grocery prices, Wes Moore tells Brian Tyler Cohen. But that does not leave them powerless: he names surveillance pricing, affordable energy and housing as areas where state leaders can act.

That practical distinction arrives late in an episode built around a larger argument about using political power. Cohen's opening subject is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which he sees as newly within reach following Democratic gains in state government.

The agreement would commit participating states to award their electoral votes to the presidential ticket that wins the nationwide popular vote, regardless of their own state's result. It would take effect only once participating jurisdictions hold at least 270 electoral votes. This is a proposed route to changing presidential outcomes through state law, not an announcement that the Electoral College has been abolished.

"Power is for getting things done," Cohen says, urging Democrats to turn their victories into policy.

Moore joins after a sponsored Ridge segment. Their conversation begins with Maryland's Question 3 on congressional redistricting, whose passage Moore presents as a significant victory for the state's voters. Later, he argues that incoming Democratic officials should use their authority to address household costs, including challenging Trump's tariffs in Congress.

The interview also tests Republican explanations for defeat. Responding to JD Vance's emphasis on foreign conflict, Moore argues that the vice president should have opposed military intervention before it happened, rather than diagnosing the political damage afterward. "What the American people want is strength through peace," he says.

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