President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold more than $250 million in estimated annual spending from the federal government for Maine’s public schools if Maine officials continue to flout his executive order requiring the protection of female-only spaces and activities.
“I heard men are still playing in Maine,” President Trump said at a speaking event last night.
“I hate to tell you this but we’re not going to give them any federal money. They are still saying that we want men to play in women’s sports, and I cannot believe that they’re doing that,” Trump said.
“So we’re not going to give them any federal funding — none, whatsoever — until they clean that up,” he said.
The order comes days after Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) set off a viral firestorm this week by posting an image of a male athlete who “won” first place in a girls’ pole-vaulting competition, juxtaposed with an image of the same athlete taking fifth place in a boys’ contest last year.
Democratic activists and lawmakers have seized on Libby’s post, with the spokesperson for the far left AFL-CIO calling the posting of the image an act of terrorism.
According to State House sources, House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) contacted Libby directly, asking her to remove the viral post — a request she ignored.
Democratic lawmakers have spent the legislative vacation week contemplating whether to officially censure Libby for making the post. Some Republicans, meanwhile, have debated internally whether to stand with Libby or join Democrats in castigating her.
In the mean time, Libby has appeared on Fox News and the Charlie Kirk Show, among other national outlets, and has now caught the attention of the White House.
Any opprobrium Democrats might cast on the Auburn Republican for making the post was complicated Thursday night when President Trump directly addressed the matter at the speaking event.
The Maine Department of Education previously issued a directive to local schools one day after Trump was inaugurated instructing them to ignore his executive order regarding the protection of female-only spaces and athletics.
According to state data and local media reports, federal spending accounts for an estimated $250 million to $300 million in money for local Maine schools.
More broadly, the federal Department of Education allocated a total of $350 million to Maine in the form of grants last year. It’s unclear whether all of those funds would be at risk.
According to state budget documents, federal expenditures accounted for more than $280 million per year in 2024 and 2025.
Any stoppage in federal dollars could lurch Maine’s schools into a crisis.
That means Democrats, who control virtually every part of government in Maine, have a difficult choice to make between their commitment to imposing gender ideology on schools and about 10 percent of total school funding.
According to Maine’s finance department, the state is already looking at a $118 million deficit for the current spending year and a $450 million “structural” deficit for the FY26-27 biennium.
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Don’t threaten them . JUST DO IT .
IF these schools want to side with the hand full of queer boys , then let them buy their own lunch .
Enough of this “ trans “ nonsense .
Stop the Money . Stop the Crazy .
So according to the ACLUseless telling the truth is now terrorism.
And they call us Nazis and tyrants.
smh
100 yrs from now if dna tests are done on these people pretending to me the opposite sex or some sort of animal the results will be either female or male.
Interesting how silent the women’s rights groups have been about men invading women’s spaces and about the abuse taking place.
No money it is I guess.
Biden leading by example, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-holding-school-lunch-money-hostage-force-transgender-policies
Yes, Angus King we and YOU should watch out. The Defence Department first revealed the Chinese navy was being watched in the Coral Sea, north east of Queensland, but within Australia’s exclusive economic zone.
Whach out were our tax dollars are going and were the Chines Navey is going. This is the farthest south they have traveled.
A big congratulations to the Maine Dept. of Education and also to Sen. Collins for making the people of Maine look like fools on a national scale. I’m sure that comrades Pingree and King will also want to get their two cents worth in before too long.
I hate what they’ve done to this state but on the other hand, I guess rules don’t matter anymore to the mills admin so its game on, do whatever you like, Its the fricken wild west. See you in hell.
THANK YOU to the Maine Wire for bringing this to EVERYONES attention .
This is what Maine voters need to learn before the 2026 elections .
Democrats are Destroying MY state .
Maine needs a Republican Governor and a Republican Legislature .
It’s our ONLY hope of saving Maine .
So, we the taxpayers of Maine will be financially punished for the select few who want to make men with mental problems play sports with girls. It will hurt our pockets, not the liberal kooks. Dems have to be run out of the state quickly before it is ruined.
Mills says “If the President attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of Federal funding, my Administration and the Attorney General will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides. The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.” It is YOU janet, who would be depriving maine school children, YOU. Just like you deprive little girls by making them compete with men.
Mainers, how do you like what you voted for? This is on every single Mainer who voted for Queen Mills and the Communists!!! You asked for this and you got it!!! ENJOY!!!
HEHEHEHEHE, gotta love this right Janet. She forgot who holds the power of the pen. FAAFO
Thank God for Trump. The mentally ill male Greely pole vaulter, competing as a woman just so he could win, should be happy. His parents, teachers, and coach should stand “proud” knowing they stood up to Trumps executive order, and will now lose federal funding. Good job Greely High School. RESIST!!!! (morons)
Hey Janet and fellow demoncRats. Simply raise the taxes in the state to make up for this shortfall (stupidity) you brought on to the taxpayers of Maine.
We now need a ballot initiative to limit property tax increases to no greater than 2% annually. Otherwise, a few mentally disturbed men who pretend they are girls will cause all our property taxes to go up to pay for this funding gap.
They painted themselves into an ideological corner. Ego is a dangerous thing when you fart above your ars.
I’ve hear talk those Zimwalt destroyers dont work so well, and the feds might be looking for a big cut to waste in the military. I would advise Maine to keep their nose clean.
Trump should cut off ALL federal money to Maine until Toady Mills is removed from office and Maine voters ousts the Socialist Democrats in Augusta!
Until then, it’s just more federal waste, fraud and abuse by Democrats!
“If the President attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of Federal funding, my Administration and the Attorney General will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides. The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.”
Hey Toady, any truth in the saying,
‘Maine is a big state, they will never find the bodies’?
that mills woman won’t say Trump’s name. Anyone else notice that?
She also won’t speak out against Trump’s death march idea of millions of peasants out of occupied Palestine into the desert wasteland.
that mills woman is trash.
It says something about members of Maine’s liberal establishment when they put virtue signaling and defiance of federal laws ahead of addressing Maine’s dismal standing in the most recent national student assessments. Their action resembles that of their spiritual counterparts in Europe who, with unjustified rectitude, head for the abyss rather than address their untoward ways. But the times they are a-changin,’ as they themselves liked to say back in the Sixties. Today, false heavens built over real hells are tottering. A storm knows what it is doing. Freedom, Soar!
that mills woman’s Statement on President’s Threat to Withhold Education Funding from Maine
February 21, 2025
Washington D.C. — that mills woman issued the following statement today regarding the President’s threat to withhold Federal education funding from Maine:
“If the President attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of Federal funding, my Administration and the Attorney General will take all appropriate and necessary legal action to restore that funding and the academic opportunity it provides. The State of Maine will not be intimidated by the President’s threats.”
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MEGOV/bulletins/3d382f7
There’s a clip on fox where the president is addressing a room full of governors and he calls out mills and gives her a sound spanking. You can hear the fear in her voice. This woman is an embarrassment to maine and all woman.
Heard the clip on Howie Carr when Trump bitch slapped Mills to her face. It made my day!
Trump totally bitchslapped Toady Mills at the governors meeting!
Toady Mills is SO out of her league!
Trump should kick her ass all the way back to Maine!
Maine has become a Matriarchy, a Karen-ocracy and not a single one of you can see it for what it is. Of course, the feminazi matriarchs will conflict with Trump, and they don’t care that we will all pay the price for it.
Looks like a long school vacation Manier’s.
Bitchslapped in front of the entire nation!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
The President just shut down Mills on national tv! She is a disgrace and should step down immediately! She embarrassed herself in front of all the other governors in the room! Stop supporting freaks, trannies, and layabout aliens! C’mon man!!
Janet, you are not a good steward of taxpayers dollars, safety or security. We look forward to you being audited and an end to the Mills dynasty in Maine politics. You are catering to a fringe minority ideology that is not popular in our country.
Jon
NOOO…kick her ass to Gitmo! .we don’t want her and her corrupt family here anymore..arrest them all!
Have to do what they did in Rhode Island – FIRE ALL THE TEACHERS
Excellent job at totally embarrassing our great State and jeopardizing much needed revenue……A bad decision that will lead to expensive, unnecessary litigation. All which will contribute to the growing financial hole that we presently find ourselves in.
What I find amazing is that General Mills — an attorney who has served as Attorney General — couldn’t legally defend tranny sports legally. And after last night, she knew that Trump likely would raise this.
WHY didn’t she raise her legal defense there and then? She could have started by reminding him that she was an attorney and he wasn’t, and then started with the Bostock Decision, and then the 14th Amendment, and then Congress’ Article 1 power of the purse and such.
Any competent attorney, with a day’s warning (which she had) could have stood up and responded to Trump with the standard lawyer’s “you will lose in court” statement that we’ve all seen them give. Or skipped the lunch.
My take is that General Mills has been a big fish in a small pond for so long, that it has been so long since anyone stood up to her that she had no idea how to respond.
Heck, she could have even responded “Respectfully, Mr. President, you are not the entire Federal Government — there are two other branches of the Federal government that get to have a say on this.”
But then she is a graduate of a law school where only 62.7% of the Class of 2017 had a full-time, law-related job within 10 months of graduation. A law school that is ranked 120th out of 198 accredited US law schools.
How can you defend a Jim Crow law? None of them have survived.
I’d like to know how many people went with Mills to DC to say 4 words to potus.
Family, security personnel, S. Bellows, staff, brother cousins etc. Also how see traveled ??? First class I’m sure. She’ll stay at $1000/night hotel in Georgetown. Eat at 5 star restaurants. She’ll stay in DC at least till Monday. Maines cold you know.
Trump talking to Mills like that has been the highlight of his administration for me. Keep up the good work Trump. The libs call us sexist when they are the one’s allowing men into women’s sports. Can’t wait to see Mills gone and MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS.
Recall Janet Mills, governor of Maine – Sign this petition and pass it on. https://www.change.org/p/people-of-maine-recall-governor-janet-mills-for-incompetence-and-financial-irregularities
According to State House sources, House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) contacted Libby directly, asking her to remove the viral post
So the libs who covered up for bidens mental incompetance and lied to us over and over, like Ryan Fecteau, want to cover this up too! WE THE PEOPLE will not tolerate this anymore! Mills, Fecteau, and other libs who think they can lie and bully us into compliance with their insanity, need to resign immediately.
§4602. Unlawful educational discriminationSection 1B of the MHRA states that it is “It is unlawful educational discrimination in violation of this Act” to Deny a person equal opportunity in athletic programs.
It’s the girls who are being denied “equal opportunity” because they are being forced to compete against a “physiologically” different gender.
When competing in sports with an equivalent gender this athlete is afforded equitable treatment. When competing with a contrasting gender this athlete is afforded a physiological advantage which denies a level playing field, legally known as “equal opportunity”.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37772882/
Starving the school districts will be seen as collateral damage to mills in order to protect the status of a few trans freak shows. Never have is said that D’s care about men abusing women. This time it comes state sponsored.
There’s a saying in the Navy, so I’ve heard, that says “we can’t make you do something, but we can make you wish you had!”
Just standard female v. male stuff.
The inbred unholy je ws are ramping up their war against Christianity by moving to seize the properties of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem after saddling them with a bogus tax debt.
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64853
Immediately this needs to be done then the dumb Dems will see what an idiot mills is. If we lose all that money this might get rid of the useless new Americans I see all over Portland – non working just loafing around and sitting at the cafes on our dime
What an embarrassment Mills is.Through the aptly named Bellows Mills tried to cheat me from voting for Donald Trump. I hope that President Trump does cut off all federal funding. When this happens we can expect painful cuts in education designed to outrage Maine’s intellectually challenged electorate – cuts to eliminate dudes from stealing shower room peaks and wins from young girl athletes will not be made. Mills will have the heat and lights turned off in schools first.
The left is pure evil.
There’s our answer, folks… Maine’s reckless General Mills, toad-faced socialist stinkah extraordinaire, an official National and State embarrassment, just stepped in it yesterday by getting politically sunk by President Trump’s happy prediction for Mainers when he publically stated to her, “Enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be an elected official afterwards.” The Party of Chaos with their dirty deeds of ruination are done in Maine! Make Maine Sane Again!
What about a trans-sports league or many trans-sports leagues? Sort of like Special Olympics? I’m sure that biologically there are only 2 sexes; but psychologically there are more than 2 sexes. Those who are biologically male, but identify psychologically as female can have their own league…as can those who are biologically female but identify as male have their own league as well. Maybe those who identify as dogs or cats (I’ve read about this, but never met anyone so identified) can have their own “Rover League” or “Fluffy League”. But, for God’s sake let’s not put government money into it!! Let these leagues be supported by those who truly believe in great diversity.
She brought a checker board to a 5D chess game. Why did she go to this? She knew Trump would call her out. She didn’t expect to be destroyed with a few sentences.
I absolutely loved watching that clip.
Remember in 2022 this headline…? No Free Lunch: Biden Admin Will Pull Meal Funding for Schools That Don’t Comply With Its LGBT Agenda. What did you think then Janet & Susan.
Google it. LMAO.
Thank goodness Trump is willing to use leverage. No one can tell me that Trump is weaker than Biden. He has gotten more done in a few weeks than Biden in four years.
Mills has been such a horrible governor. From the COVID response to her secretary of states unconstitutional chase after Trump, she has been the worst governor Maine has ever had.
To see Trump roast the living crap out of her was the best thing I’ve ever witnessed. So madly amusing.
What’s not amusing is the fact that Mills is letting men play in women’s sports (and win by 8 inches in pole vault (he also would have gotten 10th in men’s division). Now the Maine Dems are targeting Laurel Libby (who was recently on Fox News and Charlie Kirk) because she brought attention to this (with a post that has gained thousands of views, shares and reposts). Rep. Libby has done a great job bringing attention to this issue. Without her, it would have been a lot longer before anyone really knew. Thank both the Maine Wire and Rep. Libby for giving the spotlight.
I understand the State of Maine has a contract for making new license plates. Instead of the lobster and vacationland it has a drag queen and the word TRANSITIONLAND
Will someone please check the voter rolls where Mills received most of the votes that put her into her position. Illegals? Part time residents who vote in their home states and vote in Maine from their summer residence (note: they brag about doing it), dead people voting, ballot harvesting from nursing homes, etc.
We don’t need Republicuck Govenor and Legislators we NEED CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES as Gov. and Legislators I have had a GUT FULL of REPUBLICUCKS in Maine Politics . YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU BILLY BLOB and YOU TOO TRIPLE CHIN TIMBERLAKE and KEWPI DOLL KIEM to name just a few.
Everything democrats touch turns to sh*t.
https://legislature.maine.gov/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0156&item=1&snum=132
I wonder how far this bill will get?
How about girls who compete in boy’s sports – are all of you OK with that?
That was great. He told Janet just how it is going to go down. It will hurt us mainers but pain is necessary sometimes.
Good for Laurel Libby. All democrats should be ignored until they say something that will lead to their indictment.