During a February 21 meeting, Donald Trump confronted Maine Governor Janet Mills, demanding she comply with his executive order banning transgender women and girls from women\u2019s sports or risk losing federal funding. When Mills responded, \u201cI\u2019m complying with state and federal laws,\u201d Trump insisted, \u201cWe are federal law, you better do it.\u201d Mills replied, \u201cWe\u2019ll see you in court,\u201d to which Trump shot back, \u201cGood. I\u2019ll look forward to that\u2026 Enjoy your life after, governor, because I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be in elected politics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the meeting, Mills stated Maine \u201cwill not be intimidated\u201d and vowed legal action if federal funding was cut. Attorney General Aaron Frey also called Trump\u2019s threat illegal, pledging to defend Maine\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n
In response, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation into Maine\u2019s policies, potentially jeopardizing $250 million in federal school funding. This clash underscores broader tensions between Democratic governors and the Trump administration over LGBTQ+ rights and federal authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During a February 21 meeting, Donald Trump confronted Maine Governor Janet Mills, demanding she comply with his executive order banning transgender women and girls from women\u2019s sports or risk losing federal funding. When Mills responded, \u201cI\u2019m complying with state and federal laws,\u201d Trump insisted, \u201cWe are federal law, you better do it.\u201d Mills replied, \u201cWe\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25842,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25841\/revisions\/25842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}