South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is calling out the Biden Administration for their new “mandate” that schools across the country comply with the United States Department of Agriculture’s interpretation of Title IX– which ties transgender and LGBTQ+ to federal school lunch funding.

For those who might know, Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program that receives federal funding.

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Noem joined Fox News host Mark Levin on “Life, Liberty, and Levin” to explain the situation. She said:

“This White House has threatened to take away all of our school lunch resources for poor and underprivileged kids if we don’t comply with their mandates.”

“So it’s interesting to me that not only have they hurt my timber contracts to crush my lumber industry, not only have they mandated certain activities on their federal lands, such as National Parks and Bureau of Land Management Practices. Not only are they coming forward with higher taxes and more spending … they’re willing to hurt children.”

Noem added that under Trump, she could go “on offense” with support from the White House, but now, her administration is forced to be on defense.

“So it never ends. My best opportunity for pushing back on this federal government the way that it operates in Joe Biden’s America is to take them to court and sue them … But unfortunately, what happens then is I end up on defense all day just trying to protect my people from the high inflation, from the high taxes, the high food costs that they’re dealing with each and every day that hurt their budget so badly.”

She concluded, saying that under Trump, she was:

“Out there with a president that was letting me do my job, and I was able to focus on economic development, focus on making sure that our state was low, regulations that we were low taxed.”

“It’s been a complete fundamental change since Joe Biden went into the White House,”

“We’re leading the country with our economy. Our kids are outperforming kids in every other state. And the educational outcomes.”

Tom Vilsack, the Agriculture Secretary, claimed:

“USDA is committed to administering all its programs with equity and fairness, and serving those in need with the highest dignity … A key step in advancing these principles is rooting out discrimination in any form—including discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. At the same time, we must recognize the vulnerability of the LGBTQI+ communities and provide them with an avenue to grieve any discrimination they face.”

He added: “We hope that by standing firm against these inequities, we will help bring about much-needed change.”

So, the USDA’s claim is that the reason they are tying Title XI to federally funded school lunches is for “equity and fairness.”

Recently, regarding this matter, Indiana’s Attorney General, Todd Rokita, said:

“We all know the Biden administration is dead-set on imposing an extreme left-wing agenda on Americans nationwide, but they’ve reached a new level of shamelessness with this ploy of holding up food assistance for low-income kids unless schools do the left’s bidding,”

It seems clear that Noem and 22 state attorneys general are prepared to fight this tooth and nail.