U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said during a live interview on Tuesday that all nonessential federal funding has been pulled from the Maine Department of Corrections because a transgender inmate is being held in a women’s prison.
 
“No longer. We will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. We will protect women throughout this country. No more of that,” Bondi said during the live interview.

Bondi did not mention the inmate by name, but did say the inmate had killed their parents and a dog in a stabbing.

Maine’s Total Coverage previously covered a double-murder case in which the convict was transgender. Andrea Balcer, who went by Andrew