President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to strip Maine of its federal funding if it refuses to comply with his executive order banning transgender women from competing in women’s sports, marking the White House’s latest front in the nation’s culture wars.

Trump reiterated his threat to withhold federal funding from Maine over its defiance of his executive order barring men from women’s sports.

President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed over Trump's order banning transgender athletes from playing in women sports.