U.S. President Donald Trump's administration agreed on Friday to refrain from unilaterally cutting off Maine's access to federal funding used to feed school children, ending one of several legal fights stemming from the state's refusal to comply with his demands to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams.

Maine dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration after reaching a settlement agreement, a development that comes amid feuding between the two parties.

The state’s attorney general said the federal dollars paid for food for schoolchildren and other essential services.