WASHINGTON—The United States Department of Agriculture told Maine on Wednesday that it has frozen the state’s federal funding over Maine’s refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order on men in women’s sports.
In a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire, the USDA warned Maine, “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,” said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. “Today, I am freezing Maine’s federal funds for certain administrative and technological functions in schools. This is only the beginning, though you are free to end it at any time by protecting women and girls in compliance with federal law.”
USDA is also reviewing all research and education-related…
