{"id":26604,"date":"2025-05-03T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26604"},"modified":"2025-05-03T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:43:44","slug":"major-update-in-trumps-transgender-sports-battle-with-maine-as-he-makes-surprising-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=26604","title":{"rendered":"Major update in Trump’s transgender sports battle with Maine as he makes surprising decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump has made a surprising u-turn with Maine amidst his battle with the state over transgender pupils in school sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the president had\u00a0a heated debate with Maine governor<\/a>\u00a0Janet Mills over his executive order that bans\u00a0trans<\/a>\u00a0athletes from competing in women’s\u00a0sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a meeting on February 21,\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0told Mills she must comply with the order and threatened to pull funding from the state, including federal funds for administrative and technological functions in\u00a0schools<\/a>, if she refused to follow.<\/p>\n

The president told her: \u201cWe are federal law, you better do it. You better do it, because you\u2019re not going to get federal funding\u2026 Your population doesn\u2019t want men in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills promptly replied: “We’ll see you in\u00a0court<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

\u201cGood. I\u2019ll see you in court. I\u2019ll look forward to that. That should be a real easy one.\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd enjoy your life after, governor, because I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be in elected\u00a0politics<\/a>.\u201d’<\/p>\n

Now, it has appeared Trump has softened his stance by hitting pause on efforts to freeze funds that were used for the state’s child nutrition program,\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times.<\/p>\n

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Governor Janet Mills indicated immediately that Maine would sue the Trump administration ( Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

In response, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said the state would withdraw the\u00a0lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0it had filed against the US Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

“It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations,” Frey said. “But we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.”<\/p>\n

Frey said the federal funds were used to pay for food preparation in schools, child care centers and help towards feeding disabled adults.<\/p>\n

The conflict unravelled when a letter from the Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins explained there was a disagreement between the state and federal governments over whether Maine was complying with the order, Title IX, that prohibits discrimination in education based on sex.<\/p>\n

In a statement in April, Rollins said her agency was reviewing grants awarded to Maine by the\u00a0Biden<\/a>\u00a0administration and called them ‘wasteful, redundant, or otherwise against the priorities of the Trump Administration’.<\/p>\n

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Trump has made a surprising u-turn on the matter (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Days later, Maine’s Department of Education stated it could not access sources of federal funds for a state nutrition program, prompting the state to sue the Trump administration on the grounds of affecting children and vulnerable adults.<\/p>\n

Frey said: “The food doesn\u2019t just buy itself, deliver itself, cook itself,” before adding that the Trump administration had attempted to ‘bully’ Maine.<\/p>\n

Maine’s attorneys argued that the child nutrition program should be in receipt of\u00a0$1.8 million<\/a>\u00a0for the current fiscal year, while prior funds that were awarded but were blocked came to more than $900,000, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also stated the program was expecting a sum of around $3 million that usually comes every July for a summer meal program and meal reimbursement.<\/p>\n

A federal judge ordered the administration to release the funds last month and said Maine was likely to succeed its legal challenge.<\/p>\n

Celebrating the news, Mills said in a statement: “The state of Maine went to court and fought this unlawful attempt to freeze critical funding for our school lunch program – and we won.<\/p>\n

“I applaud the work of Attorney General Frey and his staff in representing the state in this action against USDA, and preserving healthy school meals for 172,000 Maine school children.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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