The Trump administration has pulled millions of dollars of research funding from the University of Maine, weeks after the president publicly clashed with state Governor Janet Mills over the banning of transgender athletes from girls’ sports.
In an email received by the college from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agency’s chief financial officer ordered all payments paused while the department “evaluates if it should take any follow-on actions” related to possible civil rights violations at the school, according to Reuters.
