Maine has begun to reap the whirlwind over its refusal to comply with President Donald Trump’s Feb. 5 executive order banning male transvestites from competing in girls’ or women’s sports.
The University of Maine System, which consists of seven universities and a law school, revealed in a statement Tuesday that its funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been temporarily paused.
The UMS said that it received a copy of an email on Monday from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer that directed the department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University of the University of Maine System.”
The USDA noted that it has poured over $100 million into the University of Maine in recent years.
