President Donald Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) began freezing federal funds to Maine on Wednesday because of Democrat Gov. Janet Mills’s refusal to bar transgender-identifying boys from competing in girls’ sports.
The USDA paused distribution of funds after sending multiple requests to Mills urging her to comply with President Trump’s executive order barring males from female sports teams and Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities receiving federal funding, the Washington Examiner reported.
In a letter to Mills, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said she is halting federal funds to the state “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.”
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