Maine officials brought legal action against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze state funding for its refusal to overthrow its transgender athletes’ participation policy in schools.
The state accused the USDA of “retaining the funding used to feed children in schools, daycares and programs after school as well as disabled adults in gathering circles”.
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The State House is seen in Augusta, in Maine, June 9, 2011. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty, file)
“Under the children’s safety banner, the Trump administration illegally retains grant funds that go to children’s maintenance,” Maine’s prosecutor Aaron Frey said in a press release. “This is only another example where no law or consequence seems to restrict the administration because it seeks a capitulation to its anarchance.
“The president and his secretaries of the cabinet do not make the law and they 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 added that the financing freezing was “illegal” and asked for a temporary ban on the ministry to retain funds.
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The USDA announced the freezing of funding and an examination of federal funding in Maine after the State refused to provide equal chances to women and girls in educational programs.
The state refused to comply with the executive decree of President Donald Trump to ban the trans sports athletes from girls and women, which caused immense federal pressure. Trump initially promised to reduce federal funding to the state if he refused to comply with the order during a speech on February 20.
Maine Janet Mills governor with a person holding a transgender flag. (AP / Imagn)
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USDA secretary Brooke Rollins said that the state should agree to protect female athletes from transcusion before the restoration of funding.
“In order to continue to receive dollars from the USDA taxpayers, the state of Maine must demonstrate respect for title IX which protects athlete students from having to compete with or against or have to appear without clothes before men,” Rollins wrote in a letter to the State.
“In addition, the USDA launched a complete examination of the subsidies granted by the Biden Administration to the Ministry of Education of Maine. Many of these subsidies seem to be useless, redundant or otherwise against the priorities of the Trump administration. The USDA will not represent the Department of Biden Administration, the Bureaucracy and the left social left.”
Frey allegedly allegedly alleged that the “Children’s Nutrition Program of the Maine Ministry of Education was unable to access several sources of federal funding, which are all necessary to feed vulnerable children and adults” after Rollins reported that the freezing of funding would not affect programs that keep children fed.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks to press members outside the White House on February 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
The Ministry of Education also referred the “non-compliance of the title of the Maine to the Ministry of Justice. The agency gave the state until April 11 to comply.
