Governor Janet Mills

I'm following state and federal law.

And I said, I'd see you in court.

We did see him in court.

A little while later, Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, sent this weird letter to me saying she was going to stop, halt all federal funding for the education programs in Maine, including most particularly the school lunch program.

She's not going to feed mac and cheese and toast and beans to school children anymore in the state of Maine.

172,000 kids were going to go without school lunch.

because of her interpretation of Title IX.

Well, geez, I said, that's not right.

So we filed suit on a Friday afternoon

Briefs were due on Wednesday.

By Friday, the next Friday, the federal judge, who was a Republican appointee, issued a 70-page opinion giving us a temporary restraining order against the federal government.

He said, whatever your view of Title IX is, you can't stop funding for school lunch programs because of your interpretation of a different law over here.

And he was absolutely right.

And so they came to the table and said, OK, we'll agree.

that will keep funding the school lunch program.

I mean, it's astonishing what you have to fight for in this day and age.

This administration has been a disaster for every basic thing like food and health care and climate issues and clean energy and so much.

So that's why I thought it over in the last few months and I thought,

You know, my senator, Susan Collins, has not been standing up to him.

She has not shown the backbone that we need in the U.S.