ANNAPOLIS–Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order Friday directing his administration to scour the state’s spending for waste and inefficiency, with a goal of producing $50 million in savings.
Moore announced the effort, called the Government Modernization Initiative, two days after promising to propose a budget with $2 billion in cuts, an attempt to address a projected $3 billion deficit.
“It’s finding the breakage in the systems and fixing them so we’re not papering it over in more expensive ways later on,” Moore said of the initiative in a Friday announcement…