Trump administration settles with Maine to restore frozen funds about Transatleet

The Trump and Maine government reached an agreement that recovered the financing for school children, said the attorney general of Maine on Friday, part of a feud between the president and the governor of the state about transgender athletes.

The attorney general of the state, Aaron M. Frey, said that his office had withdrawn a lawsuit that had lodged it in objection to the financing inspection, which had stopped around $ 3 million, he estimated, and was Initiated by the agricultural department last month. The federal dollars, Mr Frey said in an interview, paying for food preparation in schools and childcare centers, and also helping to feed disabled adults in congregate environments.

The agricultural department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, had said that the freezing would not deprive children of food.

The conflict between President Trump and the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, a Democrat, escalated in an event in the White House in February. Mr. Trump told Mrs. Mills That she could “get better” with his executive order that transgender athletes held out to participate in women’s and girls sports. The Governor, whose state has refused to follow the order, replied, “See you before the court.”

The agricultural secretary, Brooke Rollins, called the state’s unwillingness to meet the executive order when the federal funds were frozen. She said in one rack In April, her agency re -enacted the subsidies that were assigned to Maine by the Biden administration, and cast them as potentially “wasteful, superfluous or otherwise against the priorities of the Trump administration.”

Five days later, Mr. Frey filed his lawsuit and said that the break affects children and adults with a risk.

“The food not only buys itself, delivers itself, cook himself,” Mr Frey said Friday, adding that the Trump administration had tried to “bully” Maine. “The message here is that if you do not follow the law and you try to focus on Maine without trusting a fragmentation of the law to support it, we have to bring you to court.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.