President Donald Trump Sparred with Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills about transgender women in sport and told her in the White House that she should follow his executive order or “you are not going to get federal financing”, to which she answered: “We will see you in court.”
The Blue State is one of the many, Trump endangered on Thursday to cut off Federal Financing to Maine Before this afternoon with Mills bumped into a dual meeting of governors.
“You can do better because you are not going to get federal financing,” Trump told her.
“We are going to follow the law, sir. We’ll see you in court,” she replied.
President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed in the White House on Friday due to compliance with executive order. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty images)
“Enjoy your life after governor because I think you will not be a chosen officer afterwards,” Trump said then.
Mills released a statement on Friday stating that “the state of Maine will not be intimidated by the president’s threats.”
“If the president tries to unilaterally deprive the Maine school children from the benefit of federal financing, my administration and the attorney general will take all appropriate and necessary legal steps to restore that financing and the academic opportunity it offers,” she added to it.
Trump told a meeting of Republican governors Thursday in Washington that “I heard that men are still playing in Maine.”
“I hate to tell you this, but we are not going to give them federal money, they still say:” We want men to play in women’s sports “and I can’t believe they do that … so we’re going I go They do not give federal financing, not at all, until they clean it up, “he said too.
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President Donald Trump speaks in the workroom of the governors in the dining room of the White House in Washington, on Friday, February 21. (Pool via AP)
Trump’s executive order, which was signed on 5 February, dedicated all federal agencies to revise subsidies, programs and policy measures that do not meet the efforts of the administration to put an end and truth. ”
The order also instructed strict title IX enforcement against any educational institutions or athletic associations that do not comply and demand that federal help will be removed in such cases.
Shortly after the order was signed, several states, including Maine, California, Minnesota and others, mainly by Democrats, indicated that they would not comply with Trump.
President Donald Trump arrives in the workroom of the governors in the dining room of the state of the White House on Friday, February 21. (Francis Chung/Polico/Bloomberg via Getty images)
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The executive director of the primary administrative body for high school in the state of Maine said that athletic teams will continue to determine on the basis of the declared gender identity of a student, despite the fact that the executive order of the president is for “men from the to keep sports sports “.
Jackson Thompson from Fox News has contributed to this report.
