A federal judge said the Trump administration must raise its freezing of federal funds to Maine.
The ruling says that the USDA “must defrost immediately and release any federal financing to the state of Maine that have been frozen or failed or refused to pay due to the alleged breach of the state of Maine to meet the requirements of Title IX”.
The administration is also “prohibited to freeze, end or interfere in another way with the future federal financing of the State of Maine for alleged violations of the title IX without complying with the legally required procedure.”
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President Donald Trump and the governor of Maine Janet Mills faced Friday at the White House for the fulfillment of the executive order. (Pool through AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The USDA announced the freezing of funds and a review of federal funds to Maine earlier this month after the State refused to provide equal opportunities to women and girls in educational programs.
The State has refused to comply with the executive order of President Donald Trump to ban trans athletes from girls and women, which caused immense federal pressure. Initially, Trump promised to reduce federal funds to the State if he refused to comply with the order during a speech on February 20.
Maine officials filed a lawsuit against USDA on Monday after the agency’s decision to freeze funds to the State.
The State accused USDA of “retaining the funds used to feed children in schools, child care centers and programming after school, as well as disabled adults in congregated environments”, an argument with which the judge agreed.
The judge pointed out that the freezing was due to violations of Title IX, but “restricted” the ability to “provide[e] Meals to vulnerable children and adults. “
Governor Janet Mills speaks during a press conference after a mass shooting, in Lewiston, Maine, on Friday, October 27, 2023. Governor Mills, a Democrat, launched legislation on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, said he will prevent dangerous people from possessing weapons and strengthens mental health services to help prevent future tractations such as the mass shooting dangerous. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Senator Susan Collins, R-me, recently requested that the problems between the administration and her state “solve”, saying that she would continue to fight for federal funds for the State and at the same time be against transgender athletes in biological women’s sports.
The Department of Education also launched an investigation into the State due to the problem.
The Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education of the United States (OCR) sent the Department of Education of Maine (MDOE) to the Department of Justice on Friday to continue Allow trans athletes To compete in girls’ sports.
It is the Second reference of the Department of Justice The State Educational Institutions have faced in the last month on the subject, after the Department of Health and Human Services referred to MDOE, the Association of Main of Maine and Grelyly High School on March 28.
After Trump signed an executive order to prohibit trans athletes from women’s and girls on February 5, Maine was one of the many states that openly challenged the order. The division of the State on trans inclusion was brought to light when Maine Laurel Libby identified a trans athlete in a social media post that won a pole jumping competition for girls for Grelyly High School that month.
The Democratic Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, challenges US President Donald Trump about Trans Women in Sports, since Trump addresses a governors meeting at the White House on February 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Libby was censored by the democratic majority and speaker of Maine Ryan FECTEAU For the position, which has prevented him from carrying out other legislative actions to serve his voters.
