In a heated exchange, Mad King Donald directly threatened to revoke funding from the state over transgender rights at a White House meeting with governors, when Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, had responded, “We’ll see you in court.”

Mad King Donald had the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) withhold funds for a child nutrition program in Maine and Maine sued the USDA last month to maintain its funding.

Yesterday, the USDA said it would halt all efforts to withhold funds for a child nutrition program in Maine.

“It’s good to feel a victory like this,” the governor said a press conference, the Portland Press Herald reported. “I stood in the White House and when confronted by the president of the United States, I told him I’d see him in court. Well, we did see him in court, and we won.”

The governor said USDA had frozen funds for a program that helps feed 172,000 children in the state, the paper reported.

The settlement says the USDA and Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, “agree to refrain from freezing, termination, or otherwise interfering with the state of Maine’s access to United States Department of Agriculture funds ... based on alleged violations of Title IX without first following all legally required procedures”.

A win's a win but, jeebus, in the reign of Mad King Donald it requires suing the federal government in order to get it to comply with the law and its own regulations.

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