In the 2018 Legislative Session—six years after proponents of the casino gambling claimed that casino revenue would support Maryland's public schools—the General Assembly passed legislation that would allow voters to place a lockbox on gambling revenue that was promised to be dedicated to education, essentially acknowledging that earlier claims of increased education funding did not come to fruition. In an interview, Franchot said, "The Governor back then. The legislative leaders. All of them knew this was fundamentally a lie… It was a crass, cynical effort to dupe people."