Trump and Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills conflict at White Home over govt order

President Donald Trump sparred with Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills over transgender girls in sports activities, telling her on the White Home that she should observe his govt order or “you are not going to get federal funding,” to which she replied, “we’ll see you in court docket.” 

The blue state is one in every of a number of defying Trump’s Feb. 5 govt order stopping trans athletes from competing in women’ and ladies’s sports activities. Trump threatened Thursday to chop off federal funding to Maine earlier than clashing with Mills this afternoon at a bipartisan assembly of governors. 

“You higher do it since you’re not going to get federal funding,” Trump advised her.  

“We’ll observe the legislation sir. We’ll see you in court docket,” she responded. 

TRUMP VOWS TO CUT OFF FEDERAL FUNDING TO MAINE OVER REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH ‘NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS’ ORDER 

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed Friday on the White Home over govt order compliance. (Pool through AP/Win McNamee/Getty Photographs)

“Take pleasure in your life after governor as a result of I do not assume you may be an elected official afterwards,” Trump then stated. 

Mills launched an announcement Friday saying that “The State of Maine won’t be intimidated by the President’s threats.” 

“If the President makes an attempt to unilaterally deprive Maine faculty youngsters of the good thing about Federal funding, my Administration and the Legal professional Common will take all applicable and mandatory authorized motion to revive that funding and the educational alternative it offers,” she added. 

Trump advised a gathering of Republican governors in Washington on Thursday that “I heard males are nonetheless enjoying in Maine.” 

“I hate to inform you this, however we’re not going to offer them any federal cash, they’re nonetheless saying ‘we would like males to play in girls’s sports activities’ and I can not imagine that they are doing that… So we’re not going to offer them any federal funding, none in anyway, till they clear that up,” he additionally stated. 

WISCONSIN BANS TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS’ SPORTS, FOLLOWING TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER 

President Donald Trump speaks on the Governors Working Session within the State Eating Room of the White Home in Washington, on Friday, Feb. 21. (Pool through AP)

Trump’s govt order, which was signed on Feb. 5, instructed all federal companies to evaluate grants, packages and insurance policies that fail to adjust to the administration’s efforts to finish “male aggressive participation in girls’s sports activities… as a matter of security, equity, dignity, and reality.” 

The order additionally instructed strict Title IX enforcement towards any academic establishments or athletic associations that don’t comply and calls for federal help be taken away in such circumstances. 

Shortly after the order was signed, a number of states, together with Maine, California, Minnesota and others run primarily by Democrats, indicated that they might not adjust to Trump.  

President Donald Trump arrives on the governors working session within the State Eating Room of the White Home on Friday, Feb. 21. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

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The chief director of the first governing physique for highschool sports activities within the state of Maine stated athletic groups will proceed to find out eligibility based mostly on a scholar’s said gender identification, regardless of the president’s govt order in search of to maintain “males out of ladies’s sports activities.” 

Fox Information’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.