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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Saturday that it was launching a review of compliance with the University of Maine “after the unpleasant contempt of the State of Maine for the Executive Order (EO) of President Trump 14201, ‘keeping men outside women’s sports. ‘”
The review follows the investigations launched by the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services in the last 24 hours after a tense exchange between President Trump and the Democrat of the governor of Maine Janet Mills about the students transgender athletes who play in women’s sports.
“President Trump has made it very clear: the dollars earned by taxpayers will not support institutions that discriminate against women,” said United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, in a statement shared with Fox News Digital Saturday .
“The USDA undertakes to maintain the president’s executive order, which means any institution that chooses to ignore it can lose future funds.”
The University of Maine receives more than $ 100 million in USDA funds, according to the USDA.
The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, and President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday. (Getty images)
Trump and Mills faced Thursday at the White House during a bipartisan meeting of governors when the president told him that he should follow his executive order or “you will not obtain federal funds.”
“See you in court,” Mills replied.
The Blue State is one of the several that challenges Trump’s executive order that prohibits transgender athletes competing in girls and women’s sports. Trump threatened Thursday to cut Federal Financing for Maine Before facing Mills at the bipartisan meeting of governors.
“Are you not going to comply with that?” Trump asked Mills.
“I am complying with state and federal laws,” she replied.
“Well, we are Federal Law,” Trump said. “You better do it. You better do it because you will not get any federal financing if you don’t.”
Democratic governor Janet Mills in the house of the state in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
“And, by the way, your population, although it is something liberal, although I did it very well there, your population does not want men to play in women’s sports. Therefore, it is better than you fulfill because of what of what otherwise you do not get federal funds, “Trump added.
“We’ll see you in court,” Mills snapped.
“Well, I’ll see you in court. I hope that. That should be really easy,” Trump replied. “And enjoy your life after the governor because I don’t think you are in the chosen policy.”
Mills issued a statement on Friday, saying: “The state of Maine will not be intimidated by the president’s threats.
“If the president tries to deprive Maine’s school children for the benefit of federal financing, my administration and the attorney general will take all appropriate and necessary legal actions to restore that financing and the academic opportunity it provides.”
After the exchange on Friday, the Department of Education launched an investigation into Maine schools.
Campus of the University of Maine in ORONO (Denis Tangney Jr. through Getty Images)
“Today, the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education of the United States (OCR) sent a letter to the commissioner of the Department of Education of Maine, Pender Makin announcing that OCR is initiating a directed investigation of the Department of Education of Maine (MDOE) In the midst of accusations that it continues to allow male athletes to compete in girls’ interscholar athletics that has denied female athletes only intimate facilities, violating thus Against Federal Discrimination Law, “said the Department of Education in a press release on Friday.
Trump reiterated his plan to cut federal funds to the State at a meeting with Republican governors on Thursday.
“I heard that men are still playing in Maine”, Trump said to a meeting of Republican governors in Washington on Thursday.
“I hate telling you this, but we are not going to give them federal money. They still say: ‘We want men to play in women’s sports’, and I can’t believe they are doing that …, we are not going to give them any federal financing, None, until they clean it. “
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Trump also continued his criticism of Maine on Saturday while talking at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
“The governor of Maine. She is struggling to keep men in women’s sports. Do you ever see what happens to a woman when a woman box? A man who made the transition to the woman? Have you ever You saw what happens?
“Let her make that fight. Let everyone make that fight. Because I think it is a 90/10 problem, and I can’t understand who 10%are. Nobody can.”
Fox News Digital has communicated with the White House and the University of Maine to comment.
