[I]n a White House meeting with governors in February,] over a Maine anti-discrimination law that allows transgender athletes to participate in girls’ and women’s sports, [...] Trump threatened that day to cut off funding for Maine, and Ms. Mills shot back, “See you in court,” she has not budged from her stance: that complying with the president’s executive order barring transgender women from women’s sports would violate the Maine law.
While she has stood firm, the federal government has barraged the state with investigations, declared its education system to be in violation of federal law and frozen some of its funding.
The Department of Education has set Friday as a final deadline for Maine to comply with the president’s order. If it does not, the agency plans to hand the matter over to the Department of Justice for enforcement.
NYT
That's today.
When [Trump] visited the state early in the pandemic, he insulted [Governor Mills'] public health policies and called her “a dictator” who “doesn’t know what she’s doing.” The governor, a Democrat and brusque former prosecutor, did not mince words in response: “I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,” she said at the time.
And, once again, every accusation is a confession.
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