2025 Press Releases

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• 6/11/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Approval of Frontier-Verizon Merger

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding approval by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of the proposed merger of Frontier and Verizon.

• 5/15/2025 Attorney General Tong Praises Senate Passage of Consumer Protection Legislation

  Attorney General William Tong today praised passage in the state Senate of proposed legislation which seeks to strengthen a number of important protections for consumers.

• 2/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Seeks Legislation to Combat Shrinkflation, Price Gouging

  Attorney General William Tong today urged lawmakers to back legislation proposed by the Office of the Attorney General to combat “shrinkflation” and price gouging contributing to unaffordable grocery bills for Connecticut families.

• 5/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Wins Court Order Protecting Federal Agencies Supporting Libraries, Museums, Minority-Owned Businesses, and Workers

  Attorney General William Tong this week won a court order stopping the Trump administration from dismantling three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public libraries and museums, workers, and minority-owned businesses nationwide.

• 2/6/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement in Response to U.S. Department of Justice Threat to Defund Police

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding the directive issued by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to “pause the distribution of all funds” to jurisdictions who do not let the federal government unlawfully commandeer local law enforcement resources for federal immigration enforcement.

• 2/6/2025 Attorney General Tong Demands Refunds for Optimum Customers Facing MSG Blackouts

  Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin today took action to secure automatic refunds for customers of Altice USA (Altice), the owner of Optimum, who have been denied access to MSG Networks (MSG) cable channels as a result of Optimum’s blackouts.

• 2/5/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Trump Executive Order Threatening to Defund Schools Who Do Not Discriminate Against Transgender Athletes

  Attorney General Tong issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order threatening to defund schools to who do not discriminate against transgender athletes.

• 6/6/2025 Attorney General Tong Calls on Insurance Department to Scrutinize Unaffordable Rate Hike Demands

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement regarding insurance rate hike requests announced today by the Connecticut Insurance Department from seven health insurers for plans available on the individual and small group market, both on and off the state-sponsored exchange.

• 2/14/2025 Attorney General Tong Stands with Transgender Military Members in Challenge to President Trump’s Discriminatory Executive Order

  ttorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 20 state attorneys general in filing a “friend of the court,” or amicus brief, to support a lawsuit aiming to block the implementation of President Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military. The brief argues that the executive order is unconstitutional, harms national security, and discriminates against transgender people honorably serving in our nation’s military, including the National Guard in every state.

• 5/29/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Appeals Court Stay of Decision That Blocked Trump Tariffs

  ttorney General William Tong today released the following statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit temporarily stayed the decision issued Wednesday by the United States Court of International Trade ruling that the Trump administration’s tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) were invalid and could not be implemented.

• 6/2/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement on Passing of Attorney General Carl R. Ajello

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement on the passing of Attorney General Carl R. Ajello, who served from 1975 to 1983.

• 3/25/2025 Attorney General Tong Urges Comcast and YES to Reach Agreement Before Opening Day

  Attorney General William Tong released the following statement urging Comcast and the Yankee Entertainment and Sports Network (YES) to reach an agreement and prevent a shutoff before MLB Opening Day on Thursday.

• 2/5/2025 Attorney General Tong and 14 Other Attorneys General Issue Joint Statement on Protecting Access to Gender-Affirming Care

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 14 other attorneys general to reaffirm their commitment to protecting access to gender-affirming care in the face of the Trump Administration’s recent Executive Order.

• 3/20/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues Salvatore Carabetta for Illegal Encroachment on State Park

  Attorney General William Tong has filed an enforcement action against Salvatore Carabetta and his Meriden Homestead II and Meriden Homestead III LLCs for the egregious illegal encroachment on Lamentation Mountain State Park property.

• 2/21/2025 Attorney General Tong Calls on Court to Protect Gender Affirming Care

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland supporting Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality, and individual patients and their families, in their lawsuit against the Trump Administration.