BALTIMORE — In the days after President Donald Trump threatened to pull federal support for Maryland’s most pressing and expensive infrastructure project, Gov. Wes Moore quickly dismissed the idea.

Trump falsely claimed he approved the money to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge and doesn’t have the power now to revoke it, Moore said repeatedly as he and the president exchanged personal barbs in their largest confrontation to date.

“He’s talking about pulling (something) that he did not give us in the first place,” Moore said on MSNBC, adding that Trump had made “such an ignorant comment.”

But as Moore emphasized Congress’ role in controlling federal spending, Trump has continued to push the boundaries of how much of that authority he can claim — risking, some say, commitments like th

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