Maryland governor defends $190K Trump-centric consulting contract as president-elect moves in next door

Maryland’s Democratic politician tapped 1 of the world’s largest risk-management firms for a short-term declaration successful mentation for Republican President-elect Trump moving successful adjacent door.

Gov. Wes Moore hired Accenture PLC, an Irish IT and consulting steadfast with an estimated $60 cardinal successful revenue, to beryllium its eyes and ears connected Trump’s instrumentality to Washington, D.C.

Two days aft Trump was projected to win, Maryland finalized its $190,000 contract.

Consultants astatine Accenture person been charged with analyzing however Trump and legislature Republicans volition affect Maryland, including successful presumption of national monies sent crossed the Anacostia River arsenic the caller medication signals a large belt-tightening.

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Maryland Gov. Westley Moore (Getty)

The declaration includes a conception focused connected identifying authorities "resources and efforts and see imaginable avenues for ineligible challenges."

It besides seeks to way Trump’s docket and his circle’s engagements with third-party groups similar the Heritage Foundation, according to the Baltimore Sun.

Moore appeared to admit determination volition beryllium times Maryland’s interests tally antagonistic to the White House’s, but suggested his hiring of Accenture was not to make specified an overtly adversarial narration arsenic critics person suggested.

A spokesperson for Moore appeared to disregard claims the politician is trying to acceptable up a showdown, saying determination are 4 tenets guiding him into a caller Trump era: "Defend our law rights, turn our economy, and reconstruct religion successful our nationalist servants [and] our institutions, and our democracy."

"Governor Moore is acceptable to enactment with the incoming medication to guarantee these goals are accomplished, and wherever determination is communal crushed to beryllium found, helium volition find it. Not lone arsenic a substance of rule – but arsenic a work to the radical the Moore-Miller medication represents."

The spokesperson said hiring a steadfast similar Accenture is modular signifier successful business, and that with the "unique role" the national authorities plays successful Maryland’s economy, it is important to afloat recognize however champion to enactment with Trump.

"With billions of dollars successful imaginable liabilities for the state, it would beryllium reckless of the Moore-Miller medication to not beryllium prepared for immoderate caller argumentation directions taken by the national government."

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Wes Moore (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

Like Virginia and the District of Columbia itself, Maryland is inextricably linked to the national government, which besides comprises conscionable nether 10% of the state’s workforce.

The Old Line State houses respective national bureau headquarters. NASA’s Goddard Space Center boasts its ain backstage exit disconnected the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, the NIH field sits successful Bethesda and the FDA calls Silver Spring home.

Geographically, what remains of the archetypal national territory is besides wholly erstwhile Maryland territory – arsenic Arlington and Alexandria retroceded to Virginia successful 1847.

Fox News Digital reached retired for remark from authorities House Minority Leader Jason Buckel, R-Cumberland.

Buckel told Maryland Matters that the declaration is "not successful the champion interests of immoderate Marylander, peculiarly nether the unified power of our national authorities by Republicans," and suggested the declaration is ill-timed fixed Maryland's reported billion-dollar deficit.

D.C. and Virginia person besides keyed into sweeping changes the Trump medication could bring to the region.

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The Maryland authorities Capitol successful Annapolis (Getty)

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested a gathering with Trump, according to FOX5DC, portion Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was – dissimilar the different 2 leaders – a salient Trump backer with fewer evident concerns.

"I look guardant to having the upwind astatine our backs arsenic opposed to successful our faces astir everything that we’re doing due to the fact that we’ve gone from the bottommost of occupation maturation to adjacent the apical of the country," Youngkin said.

However, successful Fairfax County, which, similar Maryland’s Prince Georges and Montgomery counties, is location to a precocious proportionality of national workers, the apical municipal person warned of repercussions.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey McKay told FOX5DC that Fairfax indispensable "prepare to code the imaginable impacts of the caller administration."

He said a 2nd Trump word poses a "risk" and noted Trump has a stated extremity of "dismantling authorities bureaucracy."

A typical for Accenture referred Fox News Digital backmost to Moore's office.