Maine Gov. Janet Mills neglected the rebellion over the state’s transgender people with transient inclusion in girls and women’s sports Monday and said she was “horrified” over the Trump administration’s lawsuit against her state in the midst of a battle for federal foundations.
Mills appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss her match with several departments in the Trump administration, which started when the state refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s “No men in women’s sports” banning biological men in girls and women’s sports.
The state did not comply with the order that started the question.
“The CEO is obliged by the Constitution to take care that the laws are faithfully implemented, not to make the laws, not to invent the laws or interpret the laws of tweet or instagram post or press release or executive order. He is not allowed to do so.
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)
“So when he interpreted title IX … I support paragraph IX.
Mills remembered the letters she received from the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services. She described a April 2nd -letter from USDA secretary Brooke Rollins as “pretty shaking” and said some described it as a “ransom -note.”
In the letter, the administration threatened to cut off funding to Maine due to the state’s continued allowance of biological men in girls and women’s sports.
“Right the next day, because there are perhaps a maximum of two transient athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to close the funding for our school’s nutrition program, the School Lunch program, completely, where 172,000 Maine -School Children rely on their school meals. It didn’t make sense,” Mills said.
She added that the lawsuits against the state were “not rational.”
A federal judge awarded Maine a temporary restriction order and gave up financing freezing must be canceled.
The government Janet Mills attends an event, March 11, 2022, in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
“This temporary restriction order confirms that the Trump administration did not follow the rule of law as the reduced program funds that go to feed school children and vulnerable adults,” Maine ATTORNEY General Aaron Frey said in a statement. “This order retains Main’s access to certain congress evidence by prohibiting an illegal freezing of the administration.
“No one in our constitutional republic is over the law and we will continue to fight to hold this administration for accounting.”
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The USDA “must immediately release and release to the state Maine Maine any federal funding they have frozen or failed or refused to pay because of the state of Maine’s alleged failure to comply with the requirements of Title IX,” Court Judge John Woodcock’s decision read.
The administration was 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.”
Maine has refused to comply with Trump’s executive order to ban biological men from girls and women’s sports. Trump initially promised to reduce federal funding to the state if it was to refuse to comply with the order during a February 20th.
Maine -officials filed a lawsuit against the USDA last week following the agency’s decision to freeze the financing to the state.
President Donald Trump goes on the southern lawn of the White House of Washington, DC, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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 the limited ability to “give[e] Meals for children and vulnerable adults. “
Meanwhile, Maine residents have made their statements known when it came to transient athletes in girls and women’s sports.
A March study found that 64% of the Maine residents believe that transking athletes “certainly shouldn’t” or “probably not” participate in girls and women’s sports. Only 29% of the Maine residents felt that transking athletes “probably should” or “definitely” compete “against girls and women in sports.
The vote also showed that 56% of the Maine Democrats believe that transnry athletes should be allowed to compete in girls and women’s sports.
When it came to adopting policies to combat the issue of transgender participation in sports, the vote showed that 50% of Maine residents would have it at the federal level, while 41% believe policy should be left to the states.
Maine is also among the states warned about housing prisoners of biological sex or exposed to a financing interruption.
