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.

The state’s first female governor and first female district attorney, the longtime Democratic politician has a history of supporting law enforcement.

Their exchange Friday came after Mills and Trump traded statements over the past 24 hours over his push to bar transgender athletes and evolved into an unusual breach of the typically courteous interactions that public officials,