Maine Settles With USDA Over Title IX Funding | Political News

In what on the floor seems like a capitulation by the Trump administration, a settlement has been reached between the state of Maine and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) over funding freezes as a end result of the present investigation of the Maine Department of Education for Title IX violations. Maine Gov. Janet Mills has refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump’s govt orders recognizing that there are only two genders: male and feminine, and defending girls’s sports activities from infiltration by transgendered males. In a standoff in February between Trump and Mills, Mills refused to prohibit her DOE from permitting boys who determine as ladies to take part in ladies’ sports activities groups. So, Maine’s ladies proceed to endure humiliating losses like this.

Today a organic male gained the 800 & 1600 in the women division at a Maine monitor meet.

Every woman who positioned 2nd, third, 4th, and additional in those races was pushed apart so a boy may “win.”

This is NOT truthful. Our ladies deserve a truthful, secure, and stage enjoying discipline.

— Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) May 3, 2025

Maine continues to be in the crosshairs over this because the Department of Justice and the Department of Education are still investigating Maine for Title IX violations.

The state of Maine has reached a settlement with the USDA over Title IX funding freezes.

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— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) May 2, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday agreed to halt all efforts to freeze funds supposed for a Maine youngster 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 introduced.

“It’s unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations,” Frey stated in a assertion. ”But we’re happy that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will proceed to obtain funds as directed by Congress to feed kids and weak adults.”

An electronic mail message looking for remark was despatched Friday to the Agriculture Department.

The settlement closes a dispute first sparked by the federal authorities’s determination to freeze federal funds to Maine for sure administrative and technological features in the state’s faculties.

That would have to do with funds slated for technical and administrative applications to jails, universities, and such. No one was taking any kid’s lunch away or affecting weak adults. But legacy media still selected to body it in that means. 

In the settlement, the USDA agreed to not withhold funding from Maine primarily based on alleged violations of Title IX without first following all legally required procedures. In return, Maine filed a voluntary dismissal of its claims that the USDA’s funding freeze from earlier this month was illegal.

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On April 2, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins despatched a letter informing Maine Gov. Janet Mills that the USDA was freezing funding for sure Maine instructional applications over the Trump administration’s findings that the state violated Title IX.

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The day after Rollins despatched the letter, the Maine Department of Education’s Child Nutrition Program was unable to access a number of sources of federal funding, all of that are crucial to feed kids and weak adults. The Maine DOE then knowledgeable Maine’s Total Coverage on April 4 that the USDA funding to assist administrative workers who operated faculty nutrition applications, as properly as funding for sure different grant applications that happen outdoors of faculties was not accessible to the state.

After the USDA introduced the freezing of the funds, a federal choose put the kibosh on the freeze, not primarily based on the dearth of equity or the language of Title IX, but as my colleague Ward Clark wrote, merely on procedural grounds. The Trump administration and Maine may have gone spherical and spherical on this one, but selected not to. While the explanations haven’t been said, no doubt it has a lot to do with Maine’s restricted capability to combat a lawsuit and the a number of investigations into its Title IX violations. The framing of ravenous kids and the homeless, despite being unfaithful, was also dangerous optics. So, the Trump administration agreed to relinquish the battle over this explicit set of funds if Maine dropped its lawsuit to strive and restore the funds.

So, take into account it a stalemate. But this didn’t stop the ridiculous Gov. Mills from claiming victory and speaking robust.

“A few months ago, I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, I did see him in court and we won,” Mills stated Friday. “It’s good to feel a victory like this. We took them to court, and we won.”

Most of the legacy media also framed this settlement as a victory for Maine, which couldn’t be additional from the reality.

Press Herald Overstates Maine’s Victory in USDA Settlement

Frames the settlement as a clear win for Maine, emphasizing Gov. Janet Mills’ quote, “we won,” while downplaying the continued Title IX lawsuit that still threatens bigger federal funding.

Highlights Mills’ and… https://t.co/MXKb2X2bGv

— Fate (@alltheputs) May 3, 2025

Press Herald Overstates Maine’s Victory in USDA Settlement   

Frames the settlement as a clear win for Maine, emphasizing Gov. Janet Mills’ quote, “we won,” while downplaying the continued Title IX lawsuit that still threatens bigger federal funding.   

Highlights Mills’ and Attorney General Aaron Frey’s celebratory tone without offering views from the USDA or Trump administration, creating a one-sided narrative.   

Uses emotionally charged language like “bullying tactics” to describe the Trump administration’s actions, doubtlessly skewing reader notion against the federal authorities.   

Minimizes the scope of the $3 million in unfrozen funds by focusing on the state’s legal success, ignoring the broader context of $250 million still at risk in the separate Title IX case.   

Omits dialogue of potential coverage modifications on transgender athletes, despite Mills’ earlier acknowledgment that the subject is “worthy of discussion,” limiting the depth of the difficulty’s portrayal.

That sums it up properly. While Mills and her state attorney are taking a victory lap, and legacy media is portray an inaccurate narrative, Maine ladies proceed to be erased, and Maine still has a goal on its back. Federal funds from different businesses might be pulled at any time, so if it’s a “victory,” it is a pyrrhic one. 

Editor’s Note: Donald Trump and his crew have been preventing against the left’s excessive gender agenda.  

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