Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is moving forward with a voluntary buyout program and hiring freeze, flip-flopping on an issue that he and other top Democrats rejected months earlier.

The Moore administration plans to slash about $121 million from the state’s personnel budget through a combination of buyouts to state employees, a hiring freeze and elimination of at least 150 vacant positions,

As federal cuts swept across the nation, residents in the DMV are beginning to see impacts on their own local and state budgets. On Tuesday, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced several changes for state government workers,