Portland, Maine (AP) – The administration of President Donald Trump on Friday agreed to stop all efforts to freeze funds for a nutrition program for Maine after initially suspended these dollars due to a disagreement between The state and asset on transgender athletes.
In response, the State will abandon its trial which had been filed against the American department of agriculture, announced the prosecutor general of Maine, Aaron Frey.
“It is unfortunate that my office had to use the federal court just so that the USDA complies with the law and its own regulations,” Frey said in a statement. “But we are happy that the trial has now been resolved and that Maine continues to receive funds as indicated by the Congress to feed vulnerable children and adults.”
An e-mail asking for comments was sent to the agriculture department on Friday.
The settlement closes a dispute launched by the federal government's decision to freeze federal funds in Maine for certain administrative and technological functions in state schools.
A letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, explained that the decision came from a disagreement between the State and the federal governments to know if comply with title IXFederal law which prohibits discrimination in sex -based education. Trump had accused Maine of not complying with his decree jump the transgender athletes of sports.
Shortly after sending the secretary's letter, the Maine's Ministry of Education could not access several federal funds of funds for a state nutrition program, according to the written ordinance of the Court.
The Maine quickly continued the Trump administration, where state lawyers argued that the children's nutrition program had received or receive more than $ 1.8 million for the current financial year. The previous funds which have been awarded but which are currently inaccessible total more than $ 900,000, indicates the trial. The trial also indicated that the program provided approximately $ 3 million, which is generally awarded every July for the summer meal sponsors program and the meal reimbursement.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to get rid of funds last month after concluding that Maine was likely to succeed in its judicial dispute.
“The state of Maine went to court and fought this illegal attempt to freeze critical funding for our school lunch program – and we won,” Democratic Governor Janet Mills said in a statement. “I applaud the work of the Attorney General Frey and its staff in the representation of the State in this action against the USDA and the preservation of healthy school meals for 172,000 schoolchildren in Maine.”
