Trump Admin Halts Funding To Blue State’s Universities Over Gov Allowing Men In Women’s Sports

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday temporarily paused funding to the entire University of Maine System (UMS) due to the state’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills refusing to comply with President Donald Trump’s order banning men from competing in women’s sports.

Trump and Mills had a fiery exchange at the White House in February in which the president called the governor out for pledging not to comply with the order to protect women’s sports, which Mills responded by threatening legal action against the president. The USDA opened an investigation into Maine’s department of 🎓Education the following day to review UMS’s compliance with Title IX, which protects women from discrimination.

UMS said in a press release that an email apparently sent from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directed the department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System.”

Federal funding to Columbia University was also revoked over accusations the university was not doing enough to protect Jewish students when violent antisemitic protests broke out on campus and multi-week long encampments were allowed to remain in place.