The usual race-to-the-finish mentality of the Maryland General Assembly’s annual session is about to kick up a notch. A $3 billion state budget deficit, a mid-March federal budget deadline and President Donald Trump’s flood of executive actions have spurred lawmakers’ warnings that the last five weeks will be the most difficult of the 90-day sprint.

The Democratic governor said his team will begin looking to put fired workers into open state and county positions through recruiting websites and job fairs.

Gov. Wes Moore is expected to announce a series of actions to help Marylanders impacted by federal workforce layoffs, firings, and changes to federal funding. The Trump administration has implemented