Maine officials filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday to combat a freezing funds from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The USDA secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced last week that the agency had federal funds frozen to Maine because or the refusal of Democratic governor Janet Mills to ban boys who can compete in girls’ sports. The USDA said it stopped the distribution of funds after sending multiple applications to Mills, urging it to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order and title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex on educational programs and activities that receive federal funds.
“You cannot openly violate the federal law against discrimination in education and expect federal funds to continue incessantly,” Rollins said in the Charter. “His challenge to the federal law has cost its state, which is subject to the title IX in educational programming. Today, I am freezing the federal funds of Maine for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.”
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey filed a complaint in a federal court describing the financing pause axis “Illegally retain the subsidy funds that will keep the children fed, ”said Associated Press. The State is asking the court for a temporary resting order to prevent the USDA from retaining funds until you can hear the case.
In a statement, Frey said that Trump’s cabinet secretaries “do not make the law and are not above the law, and this action is necessary to remind the president that Maine will not be intimidated to violate the law.”
Frey claimed that the child nutrition program of the Department of Education of Maine cannot access several sources of financing due to the action of the USDA. Rollins specifically said in his letter addressing the freezing that “the Pause does not affect federal food programs or direct assistance to the main ones; if a child was fed today, it will be fed tomorrow.”
“The demand establishes that the Child Nutrition Program received or was due to recall more than $ 1.8 million for the current fiscal year. The previous year the funds granted but currently inaccession, the lawyer of the lawyer of $ 900,000” are currently. The lawsuit also says that the program was anticipating around $ 3 million that are granted every July for the administration of the Julio Summer Food Program.
In the letter of April 2, Rollins did not declare what funds of the program stop or a specific amount, but said that freezing would end immediately if Mills complies with the federal law.
“This is just the beginning, he thought he is free to finish it at any time by protecting women and girls in accordance with federal law,” Rollins wrote.
Rollins said the USDA is also reviewing all funds related to research and education in the State for the fulfillment of the Constitution, federal laws and Trump administration.
“To continue receiving dollars from USDA taxpayers, the state of Main must demonstrate compliance with the protection of the title IX of student athletes,” says the letter.
“The USDA, together with other federal agencies, will continue with the lining and, when appropriate, will rescind the education programming categories in Maine if these violations of the title IX are not resolved to federal government satisfaction.”
President Trump’s executive order on “keeping men out of women’s sports” was created to protect Student athletes to have to “compete with or against or have to seem unleashed to men.” The order also requires each Federal Department to “review subsidies to education programs and, where the appropriate, terminate funds to programs that do not comply with the policy established in this order”, which protects women “as a matter of security, equity, equity.”
After Trump’s order, Maine officials publicly saying They would not fulfill, rising with transgender-distressing men about women and girls and citing the state law that allows students to play in teams that coincide with “gender identity.”
Then a transgender-independent child say The victory in the Maine Class B Championship for the Grelyly High School’s female athletics team in February.
President Trump and Governor Mills had a public splash on February 20, in which he said at the dinner of the Association of Republican governors that Maine is at risk of losing federal funds if the State continues to allow men to play in women’s sports teams.
“We are the federal law. You better do so, because you will not get federal funds if not … your population does not do it because people in the sport of women,” Trump said. “Contre Conteter, or is not obtaining federal funds.
“See you in court,” Mills replied.
“Well. See you in court, that should be really easy,” Trump replied. “Enjoy your life later, governor. I don’t think you are in the chosen position.”
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Both the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) later launched Investigations in the State and, ultimately, base The Department of Education of Maine (MDOE) and other entities in violation of the title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities that receive federal funds.
Last week, La Cierva inveterate A letter to the MDOE Council that the State has until April 11 to comply with the executive order of President Trump, who requested “rewriting the education rules of the Federal Title IX to retain federal funds from schools that allow transgender athletes.”
“The Department of Educations of Maine Indifference to its past, current and future female athletes is amazing. By refusing to comply with the title IX, MDOE allows competitors-competers to encourage competitors to threaten the safety of female athletes and deny equal women’s opportunities in educational activities to which they are guaranteed under the title IX.”
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“According to previous administrations, the application was an illusory proposal. No more. The Trump-McMahon Department of Education is moving rapidly to ensure that federal funds no longer support obviously illegal practices that damage women and girls.
Maine’s officials have constantly affirmed that they comply with state law, Maine’s Human Rights Law on Federal Law. Maine’s Human Rights Law contains protections for “gender identity”, an element that Maine’s Republicans want band As the debate about transgender-oideyifiers athletes continues.
Katherine Hamilton is Breitbart News political reporter. You can follow it in X @thekat_hamilton.
