Maine Attorney General Aaron Fray swiped the Trump administration on Friday. A federal judge ruled that the state’s funding freeze must be lifted as the nation refused to modify its policies regarding transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports.
District Judge John Woodcock issued a temporary restraining order that was suspended within the president Donald Trump’s He fights transgender athlete and Maine Governor Janet Mills. The USDA announced a funding freeze last week.
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Maine Governor Janet Mills will speak at a Governor’s Work Session held at the White House state dining hall in Washington, D.C. on Friday, February 21, 2025. (Francis Chong/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“This temporary restraint order confirms that the Trump administration failed to comply with the rule of law when it cut program funding to feed children and vulnerable adults in schools,” Frey’s statement read. “The order preserves access to funds allocated to certain Maine legislatures by banning illegal freezes by the administration.
“No one in our constitutional republic has surpassed the law, so we will continue to fight to explain this administration.”
The USDA is expected to fail to comply with the Title IX requirements, so federal funds that have been frozen or failed to Maine or refused to pay will be lifted to Maine and released to Maine.” Woodcock’s I’ll read control.
Governor Janet Mills will be taking part in the event held in Augusta, Maine on March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukati, File)
The administration also “was prohibited from freezing, termination or interference with Maine’s future federal funds for alleged violations of Title IX without adhering to legally necessary procedures.”
Maine has refused to comply with Trump’s executive order to ban biological men from girls and women’s sports. Trump initially vowed to cut federal funds to the state if he refused to comply with the order during his Feb. 20 speech.
Maine officials filed a lawsuit against the USDA on Monday following the agency’s decision to freeze funds for the state.
The state denounced the USDA “withholding funds used to feed disabled adults in schools, childcare centers, after-school programming, and disabled adults’ settings.” The judge said the freeze was due to a violation of Title IX, but “limited ability to provide.”[e] Diet for children and vulnerable adults. ”
The Maine Capitol is being photographed in Augusta, Maine. (EyeCrave Productions via Getty Images)
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Maine was one of many states openly opposed the order after Trump signed an executive order to ban trans athletes from women and girls’ sports on February 5th.
CB Cotton and Ryan Morik of Fox News contributed to this report.
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