Trump DOJ Pulls the Plug on Another Woke Program

The Biden-era transgender policies are officially out the window—and Pam Bondi just made that loud and clear.
Attorney General Bondi announced Tuesday that the Department of Justice has cut off over $1 million in federal funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections after the state housed a convicted male murderer in a women’s prison because he claimed to identify as female.
The inmate in question? Andrew Balcer—a 6’1”, 245-pound biological male convicted of a gruesome double murder in 2018. Balcer admitted to stabbing his mother nine times in the back before killing his father and the family’s dog. “I stabbed the f*** out of him,” Balcer told 911 dispatchers about his father. “Oh, I killed the dog, too. It was barking.”
Despite his violent history and obvious threat to women, Balcer was transferred to a women’s facility in 2022 after changing his gender identity on prison paperwork. No surgery, no legal reassignment—just a bureaucratic checkmark. That’s what passed for “compassion” under Democrat-run corrections policies.
But Trump’s DOJ isn’t having it.
Appearing on Fox & Friends, Bondi laid down the law. “They’re not abiding by what President Trump said,” she said. “We will pull your funding and protect women in prison, women in sports, and women throughout this country.”
Bondi pointed directly to the executive order signed by President Trump on Day One of his second term, which requires biological males to be housed in male prisons—no exceptions. That order is already under legal attack by far-left lawyers, but the DOJ is pushing forward anyway.
A DOJ spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that the administration pulled more than $1 million in discretionary funds from Maine late Monday. “The Department of Justice will continue pulling discretionary funds from institutions that promote these invasions of women’s spaces,” the statement said.
Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills has repeatedly refused to comply with Trump’s orders—on prisons and on sex-separated sports. The state’s resistance has already cost its public universities federal support after Mills defied the administration’s rule requiring that athletes compete based on biological sex.
What Bondi’s DOJ is doing goes beyond political posturing—it’s a complete reversal of Biden’s radical gender agenda. Data from the Bureau of Prisons shows that by the time Trump took office in January, 15% of inmates in women’s prisons were actually men identifying as trans. Let that sink in—over 1,500 biological males were in women’s federal facilities.
And that’s just at the federal level.
“This isn’t about discrimination. It’s about reality, safety, and protecting women from violent predators,” Bondi said. “The people voted for change, and they’re getting it.”
One more bombshell buried in DOJ’s comment: They’re using “legal leverage” to push state leaders to fix this mess—translation: Get on board, or it’s not just your funding that’s in jeopardy.
Maine officials have yet to respond to the funding cut, but the writing is on the wall: this administration isn’t going to sit back and let left-wing states use taxpayer dollars to house murderers in women’s prisons. The era of woke corrections policy is over—and the fight to protect women is just getting started.