"I FIRED Them" - Gov. Wes Moore GOES OFF On Key Bridge Contractors Over Cost & Delays

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Gov. Wes Moore explains why he fired the original Key Bridge contractors, demanding speed, safety, and cost savings after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, as he defends Baltimore’s port, rapid debris cleanup, and a new design meant to prevent another catastrophic maritime disaster.

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:04.4	Mom!
0:05.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:07.8	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:13.6	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.1	Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:29.6	In regards to other things with the bridge in Baltimore, in Maryland, because I uh, in, uh, without credit. I think you've done a very good job, uh, improving that market, you know, if anybody gives credit for lowest crime. When I think, I've been to Baltimore. I used to go to Gibson Island. There's a, there's a, there's a place called Gibson lot, real nice place. Beautiful. Beautiful place. And I'm a baseball guy. So look, I mean, Baltimore is a baseball city.
0:56.9	It sure is.
0:57.7	I'm a baseball guy.
0:54.5	So look, I mean, Baltimore is a baseball city.
0:56.9	It sure is.
0:57.7	I'm a football guy. You know, one of my good friends, Meheran Asadi, who is a CEO of one of the biggest insurance company in America, number one in Index Universal Life. He lives in Baltimore. He's been a season ticket holder, I don't know, 25 years.
1:09.8	And he's there.
1:10.9	So good people come out of this place.
1:13.1	When the bridge happened... He's been a season ticket holder, I don't know, 25 years, and he's there. So good people come out of this place.
1:13.1	When the bridge happened, and we all saw the video, okay? Everybody saw the video what happened to it and it got hit and all this stuff.
1:20.5	The debris took 38 days, right? I think 28 or 38 days to clean up. I don't know the exact number. It's something eight.
1:26.8	It's either damage, okay, let me know the exact number. It's something eight. It's either damage,
1:28.5	okay, let me see the exact thing. I want to say it correctly. It took 78 days to remove the debris.
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