2025 Press Releases

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• 4/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Trump Administration Over Unlawful Conditions on Funding for K-12 Schools

  Attorney General William Tong today, as part of a coalition of 19 attorneys general, filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s threat to withhold federal funding from state and local agencies that refuse to abandon lawful programs and policies that promote equal access to education in K-12 classrooms across the nation.

• 4/30/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Open Letter to Legal Community Regarding Law Firm Capitulations to Trump’s Unconstitutional Threats Against Lawyers

  Attorney General William Tong joined an open letter to the legal community that expresses support for law firms that have fought back against President Trump’s unconstitutional attempts to target law firms for advocacy the Trump Administration disfavors, and that expresses the coalition’s profound disappointment that several of the country’s largest law firms have capitulated in the face of these dangerous attacks on the rule of law.

• 4/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition Supporting Susman Godfrey, Law Firm Attacked by Unconstitutional Executive Order

  Attorney General William Tong today joined 20 attorneys general in an amicus brief in support of law firm Susman Godfrey, which is challenging an unconstitutional presidential order issued as retribution against the firm for representing clients in the aftermath of the 2020 election and defending the integrity of that election.

• 3/6/2025 Attorney General Tong Secures Court Order Blocking Trump Administration from Freezing Federal Funds

  Attorney General William Tong and a coalition of 22 other attorneys general today won a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration to block its illegal policy that would freeze funding for essential federal agency grants, loans, and other financial assistance programs.

• 2/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues to Stop Trump from Defunding Lifesaving Medical Research, Including $35 Million for UConn

  Attorney General William Tong and 21 other attorneys general today sued the Trump Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for unlawfully cutting funds that support cutting-edge, lifesaving medical and public health research at universities and research institutions across the country.

• 3/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Court Decision Upholding $2 Million Penalty for United Illuminating Over Failure to Clean-up English Station

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding a Superior Court decision issued Thursday upholding the $2 million annual penalty levied by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority at the urging of Attorney General Tong against United Illuminating for the company’s longstanding failure to remediate contamination at the defunct English Station power plant in New Haven.

• 4/17/2025 Attorney General Tong Releases Updated Report on Connecticut Data Privacy Act

  Attorney General William Tong today released a new report detailing the actions the Office of the Attorney General took in 2024 to enforce compliance with the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA).

• 4/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Trump Executive Order on Behalf of Fossil Fuel Industry

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement in response to a series of executive orders issued this week by President Donald Trump seeking to force the revival of dirty and dangerous energy generation and to block states from lawful efforts to combat the climate crisis.

• 5/1/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Trump Administration to Restore Title X Funding

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in sending a letter to the Trump Administration to express serious concern with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) decision to withhold tens of millions of dollars in Title X funding.

• 3/18/2025 Attorney General Tong Opposes Changes to New Passport Application Rule Harming Transgender People

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in submitting a comment letter to the U.S. Department of State opposing proposed changes to the passport application process that would prevent transgender people from obtaining a passport that matches their gender identity.

• 4/16/2025 Attorney General Tong Leads Brief to Defend Social Security from Erratic and Unlawful Mismanagement

  Attorney General William Tong led a coalition of 20 states filing an amicus brief supporting an injunction to block erratic and unlawful layoffs and mismanagement at the Social Security Administration by acting administrator Leland Dudek and the Department of Government Efficiency that jeopardize continued payments for millions of Americans.

• 5/22/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Following Senate Approval of Legislation to Increase Penalties for Reckless Driving

  Attorney General William Tong released a statement following unanimous passage in the state Senate of legislation to increase penalties for reckless driving.

• 3/27/2025 Attorney General Tong Vows to Fight Unlawful Cancelation of More Than $12 Billion in Federal Public Health Funds to States

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement vowing to fight more than $12 billion in unlawfully canceled public health funding to states, including more than $150 million to Connecticut alone.

• 7/28/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Plainville Firefighter Killed in Line of Duty

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the death of Plainville firefighter Raymond "Ray" Moreau Sunday morning while battling a house fire.

• 4/1/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues HHS, Sec. Kennedy to Overturn Public Health Grant Cuts

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for abruptly and illegally terminating $11 billion in critical public health grants to the states.