The Trump administration officially began to stop federal funds from being distributed to the state of Maine due to the governor’s refusal to prohibit males from competing in female sports. The
The move came on Wednesday after multiple requests were sent to Gov. Janet Mills (D) urging her to comply with federal law “against discrimination in education.” After Mills’s continued refusal to do so, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins notified Maine’s governor that she was halting federal funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent to the state “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.” Rollins communicated her decision in a letter to Mills.
“You cannot openly violate federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funding to continue unabated,” Rollins said in the
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