President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped the flow of nonessential federal funds to Maine’s Department of Corrections over the case of a so-called “transgender” inmate who is being held in a women’s prison.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said federal funding had been pulled from the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) during an interview with Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
“A graphic run during the interview showed that the Maine DOC was losing more than $1.5 million in federal grants,” Portland, Maine, ABC affiliate WMTW reported.
“We pulled all nonessential funding from the department of corrections in Maine because they were allowing a man in a women’s prison. A giant, six-foot-one, 245-pound guy who committed a double murder with a knife — stabbed his parents to death
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