Maryland Governor Wes Moore joins Paul Rieckhoff on Veterans Day for a no-BS conversation about what comes next after Tuesday's election. Moore refuses to let Democrats spike the football — Elon Musk's DOGE fired 31,000 federal workers in Maryland alone, one in four of them veterans, and on January 1 up to 680,000 kids could lose food assistance. They talk through Trump's remaining two years of power, the looming post-9/11 veteran showdown for the presidency between figures like Vance, Hegseth, DeSantis, Moore, Buttigieg and Sherrill, and what it actually means to honor veterans beyond a Hallmark holiday. Veterans are not a charity. They're an investment — and the country still needs them in the fight.
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Gov. Wes Moore: Democrats Can't Spike the Football. It's Time to Get to Work
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joins Paul Rieckhoff to explain why Democrats shouldn't celebrate too soon, what's at stake in Trump's final two years, and why the next battle for the White House could pit a new generation of post-9/11 veterans against each other.
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