Maine Government suggests Trump aiming based on a race in the midst of a ban on trans athletes
Governor Mainea Janet Mills announced a statement on Friday in response to the announcement that the US Ministry of Education will be Exploring her state To allow trans -a -models to compete in girls’ sports, defying the recent executive order of President Donald Trump.
In Mills’s statement, she suggested that Trump’s investigation her state Potential violations of the IX title is an indicator that the president will later target people based on their race or religion.
“Maine May [be] One of the first countries undergoing an investigation into his administration, but we will not be the last. Today, the President of the United States targets one specific group on one question that Maine Law addressed. But you have to ask yourself: Who and what will target the following and what will they do? Will you be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the president is neither a king nor a dictator, how much this one tries to behave like that – and it is precisely the rule of the law that prevents him from being, “Mills said.
“I imagine that the outcome of this politically directed investigation is all predefined. My administration will start working with the Chief Lawyer on the defense of the interests of people from Maine in court. But don’t be deceived: this is not just who it is about to compete in athletic field , it is about whether the president can force respect for his will, regardless of the rule of the law that governs our nation.
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Mills also insisted that Trump has no authority to refuse federal funding of his state for refusing to adhere to his recent executive order to ban a athlete from girls and female athletes, which the President vowed in a speech on Thursday.
“No President – Republican or Democrat – can deny the federal funding approved by Congress and appropriated, and the taxpayers of Maine in an attempt to force someone in accordance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and our laws, which I have taken the oath to support” , Mills said.
Maine is a fourth country that has launched an IX investigation into IX for the defiance of Trump’s command because it was signed on February 5th. On February 12, Doe announced that he would explore high school athletic federations in California and Minnesota after these countries, he refused to adhere to Trump’s recent order.
Previously, Doe announced on February 6 that he would investigate Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (Miaa), along with the San Jose State University and the University of Pennsylvania for potential title IX violations.
Now Maine joins the list after a two -day confrontation between Trump and Mills.
It began on Thursday when Trump vowed to reduce the funds to the state to refuse to follow his warrant during the gathering of Republican governors in Washington.
“I hate to tell you this, but we won’t give them federal money, they still say” we want men to play in women’s sport “and I can’t believe it do it … so” I “won’t give them any funding, none of them , until they clean it. “
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Maine received more than $ 360 million from the Federal Government, or about 10.1 percent of the funding of education in the fiscal year 2021-22.
On Friday, Mills answered by a statement that threatened legal proceedings against Trump’s administration if she confiscated the state funding. At that time, Trump and Mlinovi verbally paired into a widely published argument in the White House during a double -sided Governor meeting.
“Will you not adhere to that?” Trump asked Mills.
“I comply with state and federal laws,” she replied, before Trump said “Well, we are federal law” and “better to do it, do better because you will not get federal financing in anything if not.
“And by the way, your population, although a bit liberal, even though I did very well, your population does not want men to play in women’s sports, so you better adhere to because otherwise you do not get federal financing,” Trump continued.
“See you in court,” Mills replied.
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“Okay, see you in court. I look forward to it. It should be really easy. And enjoy your life after the governor, because I don’t think you will be in a chosen politics,” Trump concluded.
Doe’s investigation against Maine was published only a few hours later.
Maine came under national supervision for the permission of trance athletes in girls’ sports in the midst of rejection of the state to adhere to Trump’s warrant and a recent incident involving a Tralater.
During the national championship match, Katie Spencer, who had previously competed as a male named John Rydzewski in Polem, already in June 2024, abolished every other female half of her feet. Spencer’s winning vault was central to helping Spencer’s track and field team at Greely High School in Cumberland, Maine, won a meeting of the National Class B Championship B with only one point.
Due to the victory, Spencer has now automatically qualified for the multiple regional championship, occupying a place that would be awarded to a female athlete who raised second place, Spencer competed in the boy’s division.
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A female high school athlete and field athletes praised Trump for intervention in a situation on Friday.
Zoe, who competed in Shot on Monday, at Maine’s Class B State Indoor Championship, said she was “grateful” for the president’s announcement that he would reduce the fundamental funding for Maine because of Prkos Trump’s orders not to be from women’s sports. , adding that leaders in the country “succeeded in our athletes”.
“State leaders have failed our athletes and should be a consequence of neglect,” Zoe said. “We feel and heard each other for this announcement and hope that steps will continue to be taken in the protection of women’s sports in Maine.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the print secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House said: “Partizan elected officials and court activists who seek to legally interfere with the President Trump the will defy the will of 77 million Americans who mostly re -elected President Trump,” and added that ” Their efforts will not succeed. “
“All the executive actions of President Trump are lawful, constitutional and is intended to fulfill the promise he has made to the American people,” Leavitt said. “Trump administration He is ready to keep these battles in court and will overcome. “
Alex Schemel Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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