A federal judge said the Trump administration must lift their freezer on federal funding to Maine.
The order states that the USDA “must immediately release and release to the state Maine Maine any federal funding that they have frozen or failed or refused to pay due to the state of Maine’s alleged failure to comply with the requirements of title IX.”
The administration is also “excluded from freezing, ending or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine’s future federal funding for alleged violations of title IX without complying with the legally required procedure.”
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President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills collided on Friday in the White House over compliance with executive order. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The USDA announced Funding Freeze and a review of federal funding to Maine earlier this month after the state refused to provide equal opportunities for women and girls in educational programs.
The state has refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, causing enormous federal pressure. Trump initially promised to reduce federal funding to the state if it refused to comply with the order during a 20th February speech.
Maine -officials brought a lawsuit against the USDA on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze the financing to the state.
The state accused the USDA of “detention of funding used to feed children in schools, childcare centers and programming after school and disabled adults in a total environment,” an argument that the judge agreed.
The judge noted that the freezer was due to violations of title IX but it “limited” the ability to “give[e] Meals for children and vulnerable adults. “
The government Janet Mills speaks during a news conference in the wake of a mass shooting, in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, October 27, 2023. Gov. Mills, a Democrat, rolled legislation on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, she said shaking is in possessing possession of weapons and strengthening mental healthcare to help prevent future tragedies such as the Lewiston mass as the shaking of the state. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Senator Susan Collins, R-ME, recently called for the questions between the administration and her state to be “resolved” and said she would continue to fight for federal funding for the state, while also opposing trans-transient athletes in biological female sports.
The Department of Education also launched a study of the state because of the question.
The US Ministry of Education for Civil Rights (OCR) referred the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) to the Department of Justice Friday to come Allow trans athletes To compete in girls sports.
It is Second DOJ reference The state’s educational institutions have been exposed to the last month during the question, after the Department of Health and Human Services referred MDOE, Maine Principals’ Association and Greely High School 28 March.
After Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women and girls’ sports on February 5, Maine was one of the many states that openly defied the order. The state’s gorge on trans -Including was then brought forward when Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby identified a trans -athlete in a social media post that won a girls Pole Vault Competition for Greely High School that month.
Democratic Maine Government Manager Janet Mills challenges US President Donald Trump over trans women in sports as Trump addresses a meeting with Governors in the White House on February 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Libby was censored by the Maines Democratic Majority and Speaking Ryan Fecteau For the position that has prevented her from performing other legislative actions to serve her voters.
