Looks like he means it.
Union Soldier on the arrival of General Grant to the Army
One of the things I wrote about Donald Trump after his first term is that we hadn’t seen a president like him in terms of keeping promises since James Knox Polk.
And while we’ve seen a few changes, driven by experience and the help that Elon Musk has made possible, this trait of doing what he says is still evident as the University of Maine has discovered.
An email forwarded to the University of Maine that appears to have originated from the USDA’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer directs the Department’s “awarding agencies and staff offices to temporarily no longer issue any payments or authorize any other releases of funding to Columbia University or the University of Maine System.”
Maine Pols are not happy:
In a statement, Maine Senator Angus King said the funding pause will impact Maine’s economy.
“The abrupt, unprecedented decision to cancel millions of dollars in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for the University of Maine will have dramatic impacts on Maine’s current and future workforce, agricultural research, supply chain resiliency, and small businesses across the state,” he said.
Abrupt? Unprecedented? Leftists must be redefining words again. It’s been weeks since Donald Trump VERY publicly informed the governor of Maine that this was coming if universities in the state continued to defy his executive order on men in woman’s sports, furthermore there is a very long history of various presidents using the stick of threatening federal funds if they don’t comply with either law of EO’s
And the ACLU (which has become rather selective on what rights they defend are screaming this is an assault on free speech.
“Now what we’re seeing is the federal government trying to coerce schools to teach a certain way or to not teach certain topics. That’s inconsistent not only with freedom of expression but also with this broader idea of academic freedom,” Heiden said.
This would be news to Hillsdale College which happily teaches what it wants without a dime of federal funding. There is nothing stopping UMaine from doing without federal funds and loading their women’s teams with all the men they want.
But for now their reaction is having the same effect as the execution of Admiral Byng did on the British Navy. They are discovering in Maine that Trump, like General Grant, means it.
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