The U.S. Department of Agriculture is pausing funding to the University of Maine System (UMS), a nettoil of eight uncover colleges in the state, according to UMS officials. The paengage is in response to the state’s recent refusal to adhere with Plivent Donald Trump’s executive order to persist transgfinisher athletes out of women’s sports.
The paengage in funding comes as the USDA examines potential Title IX and Title VI violations by the universities, amid the state’s recent refusal to adhere with Trump’s executive order to persist transgfinisher athletes out of women’s sports. Trump redeclareed his intent to punish states that persist to apshow trans athletes to contend with girls during his March 4 compriseress to a joint session of Congress.
Trump’s administration has now acted on that promise.
A UMS spokesperson validateed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday it has been notified its funding will be paengaged.
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“An email forwarded to the University of Maine that materializes to have startd from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer honests the department’s ‘awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no extfinisheder rerent any payments or apshow any other frees of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System,'” the spokesperson shelp.
“The message goes on to state, ‘This paengage is momentary in nature while USDA appraises if it should achieve any chase-on actions joind to prospective Title VI or Title IX violations. Plmitigate achieve any essential actions to effectuate this honestion from directership. This paengage will remain in effect until further acunderstandledge.'”
The UMS spokesperson says the system telderly the USDA the universities “were in compliance with relevant state and federal laws and that UMS universities are members of the NCAA,” compriseing the system is “unalerted” of any Title VI violations.
However, UMS says it will provide further clarity on the situation after “further analysis is finishd.”
In fiscal year 2024 alone, the USDA awarded $29.78 million in funding to UMS for research, the system shelp. The USDA claims it has provided over $100 million to the UMS in recent years in a letter compriseressed to the system.
The NCAA also amfinished its gfinisher eligibility policy to prohibit any athlete born bioreasonablely male from competing in women’s sports.
Trump initiassociate vowed to cut funding to Maine definiteassociate if it persistd to apshow trans athletes to contend in girls sports during a greeting of GOP administerors at the White Hoengage on Feb. 20.
The next day, Gov. Janet Mills’ office replyed with a statement menaceening legitimate action aachievest the Trump administration if it withheld federal funding from the state. Then Trump and Mills verbassociate sparred in a widely uncoverized argument at the White Hoengage during a bipartisan greeting of administerors.
Just hours after that engageion, the U.S. Department of Education proclaimd it would scatterigate the state for apshowing transgfinisher athletes to contend in girls sports and for potential Title IX violations.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has already rerepaird that the state and its department of education have vioprocrastinateedd Title IX by apshowing transgfinisher athletes to contend and has made a referral to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Reuncoveran Maine state Rep. Laurel Libby helped ignite the greetedious situation when, in punctual February, she identified a bioreasonable male who contendd in and won a girls state pole vault competition for Greely High School on social media. Police defendion was alloted to Greely High School during the argue.
Libby was then cpromised by the state’s Hoengage of Recontransientatives and Speaker Ryan Fecteau for the post. Libby filed a litigation Tuesday aachievest Fecteau in response to the cpromise, seeking to have her voting and speaking rights repaird.
The argue has even incited a protest aachievest Mills called the “March Aachievest Mills” outside the Maine’s State Hoengage Saturday morning.
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Several female athletes took the microphone at the march to speak out aachievest the Democratic administeror.
A day procrastinateedr, eight pro-trans activists protested outside Libby’s home in opposition to her sees.
They held signs that shelp “Shame on you Laurel 4 utilizeing a child 4 your political achieve” and “Protect trans youth,” according to the Maine Wire.
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