“You cannot openly violate federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funding to continue unabated.”
The US Department of Agriculture announced on Wednesday that it has frozen federal funds to Maine over the state’s refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring biological males from female sports.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins sent a letter to Maine Governor Janet Mills announcing the pause, writing, “You cannot openly violate federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funding to continue unabated. Your defiance of federal law has cost your state, which is bound by Title IX in educational programming.”
Rollins said that funding for certain administrative and technological functions in schools was affected by the freeze. “This pause does not impact…
