Janet Mills actually said...

if the president attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine school children of the benefit of federal funding, my administration and the attorne...

this is about whether a president can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law.

No president—Republican or Democrat—can withhold federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress.

In America, the president is neither a king nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it.