Maine's federal funding freeze from Trump's USDA reversed

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) paused backing to the University of Maine System (UMS), a web of 8 nationalist colleges successful the state, according to UMS officials.

On Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins' bureau said the backing frost had been reversed, according to section outlets. A crushed was not disclosed.

A spokesperson for Collins said the reversal came aft Collins' bureau spoke with some USDA and White House officials.

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Maine Gov. Janet Mills and President Donald Trump astatine the White House (Getty Images)

"We’re profoundly grateful to [Collins] for this encouraging quality and anxious to enactment the whiplash and interest of caller weeks down america and support up our bully enactment to determination Maine forward," Chancellor Dannel Malloy of the assemblage strategy and University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy said successful a associated statement, via the Bangor Daily News.

In fiscal twelvemonth 2024 alone, the USDA awarded $29.78 cardinal successful backing to UMS for research, the strategy said. The USDA claims it has provided implicit $100 cardinal to the UMS successful caller years successful a missive addressed to the system. 

The intermission successful backing came during reviews of imaginable Title IX and Title VI violations by the universities aft the state's caller refusal to comply with Trump's enforcement bid to support transgender athletes retired of women's sports. 

President Donald Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed astatine the White House implicit enforcement bid compliance. (Pool via AP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Trump threatened to chopped national backing to Maine aft a heated speech with Gov. Janet Mills past month. That was followed up with a March Against Mills adjacent the State House, wherever respective pistillate athletes took the microphone astatine the march to talk retired against their Democrat governor.

A time later, 8 activists protested extracurricular Rep. Laurel Libby's location successful absorption to her views. Libby helped ignite the contentious concern when, successful aboriginal February, she identified a biologic antheral connected societal media who competed successful and won a girls authorities rod vault contention for Greely High School. Police extortion was assigned to Greely High School during the controversy.

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State code Jan. 30, 2024, astatine the State House successful Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

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Trump reaffirmed his intent to punish states that proceed to let trans athletes to vie with girls during his March 4 code to a associated league of Congress.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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