


President Trump told the governor of Maine a few weeks ago that he was going to halt funding to the state over them continuing to allow biological men to compete in women’s sports. And now it’s happening.
The USDA just cut over $56 million to the state’s universities over Title VI and XI violations.
Here’s more via the Portland Press:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily halted spending to all of the programs it funds at University of Maine System schools, a system spokesperson announced Tuesday morning.
The university system has $56.1 million in active USDA grants, most of which support the flagship campus in Orono and agriculture programs and research, according to spokesperson Samantha Warren.
Of that, about $32.4 million was expected to be paid out in the coming months and years, Warren said. The university system is still assessing possible financial impacts and next steps.
The federal agriculture department, meanwhile, said it has given the University of Maine System more than $100 million in recent years.
The USDA told its employees Monday to “temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding” to the University of Maine System while the department evaluates whether it should “take any follow-on actions related to prospective Title VI or Title IX violations,” according to a letter obtained by the Portland Press Herald.
The agency began investigating Maine’s university system for gender-related civil rights violations the day after President Donald Trump and Gov. Janet Mills got into a public confrontation over the state’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls sports. The U.S. Department of Education said it would also be cracking down on discrimination against white students, under Title VI.