The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Feb. 22 that it had “initiated a compliance review of the University of Maine following the State of Maine’s blatant disregard for President Trump’s Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
Weeks later, the University of Maine System, which consists of seven universities and a law school, revealed that its funding from the USDA has been temporarily paused pending a review of its compliance with Title IX and Title IV, which ban sex and race-based discrimination.
The USDA announced Wednesday that the UMS has fallen in line with President Donald Trump’s directive to keep men out of women’s sports but coupled the news of restored funding with a threat: “Any false claim by the
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