General Assembly passes $52B 2022 budget Shawna De La Rosa | Apr 8, 2021 Share this:
Delegate Maggie McIntosh called the bill “a bipartisan, historic act which will lift our state out of the pandemic into recovery.” “This is one of the most conservative budgets I have ever been a part of. It has $2.1 billion in cash reserves. What we did with this historic amount of money is not just spend it, we replenished our rainy day fund. We paid back the Blueprint fund … We actually paid back a good portion of the relief plan we passed earlier this year. We put cash back into our accounts and we leave here this year with a budget that is not only fully balanced, but it erases any deficit for this year and next year. It gives us a path in Maryland to recovery that is unprecedented. … But it still helps those who need our help.”