PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday agreed to halt all efforts to freeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program after initially suspending those dollars due to a disagreement between the state and Trump over transgender athletes.
In response, the state will drop its lawsuit that had been filed against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced.
Is this the art of the deal at its glory?
Attorney General Pam Bondi has launched a different lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education that would pull funding primarily from poorer students and students with disabilities. “That’s a separate complaint they filed a few weeks ago, it’s only a one-page complaint that cites no authority, no case, no law,” Mills said. “We’ll see them in court on that one as well.”
- Heather Cox Richardson newsletter
What a stupid way to say, “Trump administration reinstates funding, illegally withheld from Maine.”
Yup, the orange weakling caved again. I’m looking forward to much more such caving. It will just take a lot more entities to, like Maine did, stand up to the little diaper tyrant and this thugs. It will be entertaining to watch him cave to China and to all the other nations and economies he’s been trying to harass.
They really let the state of Maine of all states counter-bully them into submission. Their incompetence could be our triumph after all.
I hope Maine get ready for harassment & threats. And I mean this in proactive defense, not as a threat.
But what about those trans athletes?
Is Maine the state that doesn’t actually have any trans athletes, but stood on principal? Hard to keep it all straight.
I think they had one in the entire state.
