United States President, Donald Trump ,Friday, threatened to stop the federal funding from Maine after Gov. Janet Mills defiled his Executive Order on men competing in women’s sports.
He warned her that she needed to follow it or “you’re not going to get any federal funding.”
Trump signed his Executive order keeping men out of women’s sports on February 5 to “protect opportunities for women and girls to compete in safe and fair sports.” The order requires that athletes play on teams that align with the immutable biological classification of their sex at birth”.
Governors of both parties were at the White House Friday morning to hear the president deliver remarks as part of an annual meeting of state leaders.
Maine is one of several blue states that has vowed to defy the Executive Order
Turning to the Maine governor, he said “Are you not going to comply with that?”
“I’m complying with state and federal laws,” Mills responded, before Trump fired back: “Well, we are the federal law” and “you better do it, you better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t”, Trump said.