The federal Department of Justice is reiterating its opposition to Maine’s policy allowing transgender inmates to be housed in women’s prisons.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi restated the stance while fielding questions during a news conference Tuesday.

“My office doesn’t want to give any more money to the Department of Corrections in Maine, if that’s how they’re going to act,” Bondi said. “We’re going in a different direction in our funding.”

The Justice Department announced on April 7 it was terminating three grants to the Maine Department of Corrections. The communication did not specify how much money is being withheld.

Bondi announced last Tuesday on “Fox and Friends” that the Justice Department was terminating “nonessential” programs because of the state policy related to transgender detainees.

At the time, Bondi referenced a transgender inmate who killed her parents in 2016 at age 17.  Andrea Balcer was convicted of the double murder in 2018. She told a psychologist that she didn’t believe her parents would accept her as a trans woman, which led to the killings.

The Maine Department of Corrections has had a policy in place since 2015 allowing inmates to be housed according to their gender identity under certain conditions. It’s allowed as long as there’s no safety risk and only after a medical and psychological review is completed.