{"id":18717,"date":"2025-04-11T07:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/maine-governor-staring-down-trump-says-she-is-unfazed-by-loud-men\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T07:44:40","slug":"maine-governor-staring-down-trump-says-she-is-unfazed-by-loud-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/maine-governor-staring-down-trump-says-she-is-unfazed-by-loud-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by \u2018Loud Men\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump and Gov. Janet Mills of Maine have history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he visited the state early in the pandemic, he insulted her public health policies and called her \u201ca dictator\u201d who \u201cdoesn\u2019t know what she\u2019s doing.\u201d The governor, a Democrat and brusque former prosecutor, did not mince words in response: \u201cI have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/governor\/mills\/news\/governor-mills-statement-presidents-visit-maine-2020-06-05\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It seems likely, given Mr. Trump\u2019s long memory for slights, that he had not forgotten her appraisal in February when he tossed out a seemingly offhand question in a White House meeting with governors: \u201cIs Maine here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The ensuing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000010005252\/maine-trump-transgender.html\" title=\"\">clash between the two leaders<\/a>, over a Maine anti-discrimination law that allows transgender athletes to participate in girls\u2019 and women\u2019s sports, has escalated steadily since then. After Mr. Trump threatened that day to cut off funding for Maine, and Ms. Mills shot back, \u201cSee you in court,\u201d she has not budged from her stance: that complying with the president\u2019s executive order barring transgender women from women\u2019s sports would violate the Maine law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While she has stood firm, the federal government has barraged the state with investigations, declared its education system to be in violation of federal law and frozen some of its funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Department of Education has set Friday as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/media\/document\/mdoe-letter-of-impasse-109687.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a final deadline<\/a> for Maine to comply with the president\u2019s order. If it does not, the agency plans to hand the matter over to the Department of Justice for enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Neither side shows any sign of backing down. Maine sued the Trump administration on Monday, doubling down on its defiance as it began the legal fight that Ms. Mills promised at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a time when resistance to Mr. Trump has largely seemed muted by fears of retribution, Ms. Mills, a relative moderate who has never sought the national limelight, seemed unlikely to emerge as one of his boldest challengers. But to people who have watched her political ascent \u2014 from the state\u2019s first female district attorney to its first female attorney general and governor \u2014 and to some who have sparred with her over thorny issues \u2014 the governor\u2019s refusal to bow to Mr. Trump is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mills, 77, had a combative relationship with Paul LePage, the divisive two-term Republican governor who preceded her in office. Mr. LePage outraged Democrats by denying climate change and opposing same-sex marriage, attempting to roll back child labor laws and refusing to attend Martin Luther King Jr. Day events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2017, Mr. LePage <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2017\/05\/01\/politics\/lepage-sues-attorney-general-for-not-representing-his-legal-positions\/?_ga=2.187418664.1427819895.1743130687-59004817.1741097627\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sued Ms. Mills, then the state\u2019s attorney general<\/a>, for refusing to represent him in court. She campaigned for governor in 2018 on her pledge to expand the state\u2019s Medicaid program, a change Mr. LePage had fought even after voters overwhelmingly approved it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe\u2019s entered a lot of battles, and if you go at her, she will not back down,\u201d said Ethan Strimling, a Democrat and former mayor of Portland who served with Ms. Mills in the Maine Legislature in the early 2000s. \u201cShe\u2019s going to go toe-to-toe,\u201d Mr. Strimling said. \u201cShe\u2019s always been like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a district attorney early in her career, Ms. Mills sought new ways to stamp out abusive behavior. Her <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/governor\/mills\/about\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">official biography<\/a> notes that she grew frustrated with the courts for failing to protect battered women and co-founded the Maine Women\u2019s Lobby to advocate for them. She has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2018\/09\/16\/janet-mills-mission-break-yet-another-glass-ceiling\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">described<\/a> her own experience as a young woman with an alcoholic boyfriend who once held a loaded gun to her head. (She promptly left him.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Raised in rural western Maine, closer to the state\u2019s rugged mountains than its wandering coastline, Ms. Mills grew up in a family of politically connected Republicans. Her father, Peter Mills, served in the legislature, and as the United States Attorney for Maine in the 1950s. One of her brothers served in the legislature as well, and her younger sister was the longtime director of Maine\u2019s public health agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Rejecting a more traditional path, Ms Mills dropped out of Colby College, her parents\u2019 alma mater, to spend the 1967 \u201cSummer of Love\u201d in San Francisco, and then moved to Boston, enrolled in the University of Massachusetts and studied abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris. Energized by movements for women\u2019s and civil rights, she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/scarab.bates.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1266&amp;context=muskie_oh\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">became a Democrat<\/a>. Back in Maine, she worked on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy\u2019s doomed 1980 campaign for president and won her own race for district attorney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview this month in Farmington, Ms. Mills\u2019s hometown, her brother Paul Mills recalled how their father pushed civil rights legislation in the late 1960s, after learning that a club in Portland had excluded Jewish members. Their father, he said, was a lot like Ms. Mills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe had a similarly principled temperament,\u201d Mr. Mills said. \u201cHe spoke his own mind, and he could be unrelenting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her roots in conservative Franklin County, which Mr. Trump won in each of the last three presidential elections, help explain why Ms. Mills has been politically moderate on some issues, most notably gun rights. That positioning has helped her succeed in a divided state, while sometimes disappointing liberal and progressive voters, many of whom <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/31\/us\/maine-gun-laws-mass-shooting.html\" title=\"\">hoped she would propose<\/a> aggressive new gun control measures after a 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston by an Army Reservist whose unraveling mental health had raised alarms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mills allowed a new law to take effect requiring a 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, but said she felt \u201cdeeply conflicted\u201d about it. She vetoed a ban on bump stocks \u2014 add-on devices that let semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly \u2014 and said she did not want <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/governor\/mills\/sites\/maine.gov.governor.mills\/files\/inline-files\/4.29.24_LD%202086%20Veto%20Letter.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hunters to lose options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mills opted not to push for Maine to adopt a \u201cred flag\u201d law, which would allow people to petition a court to take away guns from a relative whom they considered to be dangerous. Gun control advocates are seeking a statewide vote on a red flag law in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The governor\u2019s feud with Mr. Trump has raised her profile across the country \u2014 fans now wear \u201cSee you in court\u201d T-shirts \u2014 and has intensified feelings about her at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen I saw it on TV, I thought, \u2018Yep, that\u2019s Janet Mills,\u2019\u201d said Elayne Richard, a 71-year-old Democrat in Fairfield, Maine, who supports the governor. \u201cMy first reaction was, \u2018I\u2019m so proud she did that,\u2019 because no one else had the gumption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in a state where 46 percent of voters supported Mr. Trump, many people are livid about Ms. Mills\u2019s stance. Roseanna Young, 52, of Edgecomb, a Republican who believes transgender women should not play on women\u2019s sports teams, called the governor \u201can embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re the laughingstock of the United States,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mills has been adamant that her resistance is not about the issue of transgender women in sports, per se, but about upholding Maine law and fulfilling her duty to defend it. She maintains that the state\u2019s human rights law \u2014 which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mainelegislature.org\/legis\/statutes\/5\/title5sec4601.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">prohibits discrimination<\/a> based on gender identity as well as religion, race and other factors \u2014 can be changed only by the Legislature, not by anyone\u2019s executive order. She has not expressed her own views on transgender women athletes publicly, though she has said the issue was \u201cworthy of a debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Katrina Smith, the assistant leader of the Republican minority in the Maine House of Representatives, said Ms. Mills had made the state\u2019s financial position precarious by putting its federal funding at risk, given the state\u2019s budget problems, high energy costs, property tax burdens and household incomes below the national median.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Republican legislators have introduced several proposals to change the anti-discrimination law, including some compromises, Ms. Smith said, but Democrats have not scheduled hearings to discuss them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re ready, and this could be done in a week,\u201d she said. \u201cIt kind of lays at her feet. Everyone\u2019s got their bristles up, but someone\u2019s got to be the adult and come to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because of the state\u2019s refusal to comply with Mr. Trump\u2019s order, the U.S. Department of Agriculture imposed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/USDAOC\/bulletins\/3da109f\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a funding freeze<\/a> that the state said could threaten free meals for schoolchildren. Attorney General Pam Bondi cut funds for Maine prisons this week because the state was housing a transgender woman in a women\u2019s prison, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-admin-pulls-funding-maine-allowing-men-identifying-women-jailed-females\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">she told Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, acknowledged that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/24\/us\/politics\/frank-bisignano-social-security-upheaval.html\" title=\"\">he tried to punish<\/a> Ms. Mills by briefly cutting off Maine\u2019s access to a program that makes it easier for parents to request Social Security numbers for their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was ticked at the governor of Maine for not being real cordial to the president,\u201d Mr. Dudek said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump demanded in late March that Ms. Mills issue a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114205890583765400\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cfull throated apology<\/a>.\u201d She lashed back instead, challenging his claims that he was protecting women by policing women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf the current occupant of the White House wants to protect women and girls, he should start by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying because they can\u2019t get basic, lifesaving health care,\u201d she said at an event in Bangor. \u201cHe should talk about the little girls and boys and infants in Sudan and other countries who are dying right now because he has cut off their supply of food and lifesaving medicines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Mills, who is term-limited, will leave office next year. That could ease the friction between Maine and the White House \u2014 or not. The first Democrat to announce plans to run for governor was Shenna Bellows, Maine\u2019s secretary of state, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/28\/us\/maine-trump-ballot.html\" title=\"\">tried unsuccessfully last year<\/a> to exclude Mr. Trump from Maine\u2019s primary ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Sydney Cromwell<!-- --> contributed reporting from Waterville, Maine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/10\/us\/janet-mills-donald-trump-maine.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump and Gov. 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