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President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed at a National Governors Association session at the White House on Friday regarding Trump withholding federal funding for not complying with his executive order banning biological men from competing in women’s sports.
Trump previously said Maine would not receive federal funding until it complies with the executive order.
“We’re not going to give them federal money. They are still saying, ‘We want men to play in women’s sports.’ I cannot believe they’re doing that,” Trump said.
“We’re not going to give them any federal funding. None whatsoever until they clean that up,” he added.
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🚨 President Trump announces Maine will not receive federal funding until they comply with the executive order keeping men out of women’s sports pic.twitter.com/OZqBHyW1QB
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 21, 2025
On Friday, Trump asked if Maine’s governor was in attendance.
“Are you not going to comply with it?” Trump asked.
“I’m complying with state and federal laws,” Mills responded.
“Well, we are the federal law,” Trump replied.
“You better do it. Because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t,” he continued.
“Your population doesn’t want men playing in women’s sports,” he said.
“We’ll see you in court,” Mills said.
“Good, I’ll see you in court,” Trump said.
“I look forward to that. That should be a real easy one. And enjoy your life after governor because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics,” he added.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP THROWS DOWN THE HAMMER ON MAINE GOVERNOR OVER TITLE 9
“Good, I’ll see you in court. And enjoy your life after Governor because I don’t think you’ll be in politics” @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/N2DPCd3Vxt
— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) February 21, 2025
Per Fox News:
Mills released a statement on Friday, saying that “The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.”
“If the President attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of Federal funding, my Administration and the Attorney General will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides,” she added.
Trump told a gathering of Republican governors in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that “I heard men are still playing in Maine.”
“I hate to tell you this, but we’re not going to give them any federal money, they are still saying ‘we want men to play in women’s sports’ and I cannot believe that they’re doing that… So we’re not going to give them any federal funding, none whatsoever, until they clean that up,” he added.
Trump’s executive order, which was signed on Feb. 5, instructed all federal agencies to review grants, programs and policies that fail to comply with the administration’s efforts to end “male competitive participation in women’s sports… as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”
WOW! Look at the Maine Governor’s expression when President Trump was ripping into her over her decision to allow men into girls’ sports. pic.twitter.com/ocz1dUB420
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 21, 2025
From the Associated Press:
The Maine Principals’ Association, which governs high school sports in the state, said earlier this month that it would continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete. The association’s executive director, Mike Burnham, said it would follow the Maine Human Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on gender identity.
Mills and Maine’s Democratic attorney general responded Friday morning to Trump’s comments the night before, issuing statements declaring they’d push back.
Mills said the state “will not be intimidated” by Trump’s threats.
“If the president attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of Federal funding, my administration and the attorney general will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides,” Mills said in a statement before the confrontation with Trump.
Aaron Frey, Maine’s attorney general, said he would “defend Maine’s laws and block efforts by the president to bully and threaten us.”
The order Trump signed earlier this month gives federal agencies wide latitude to make sure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets “sex” as the gender someone was assigned at birth.