2025 Press Releases

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• 2/10/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Enforcement of Temporary Restraining Order in Funding Freeze Challenge

  Attorney General William Tong issued a statement after a federal judge in Rhode Island granted the states’ motion for enforcement of the temporary restraining order in the funding freeze challenge.

• 2/9/2025 Attorney General Tong Stands with Federal Workers in "Fork in the Road" Federal Buyout Challenge

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general, standing with the nation’s federal employees in a challenge to the Trump administration’s federal “buyout” plan.

• 2/8/2025 Attorney General Tong Statement Regarding Temporary Restraining Order Blocking DOGE Access to Confidential Records, Sensitive Data and Critical Payment Systems

  Attorney General William Tong issued the following statement regarding the temporary restraining order granted early this morning blocking “political appointees, special government employees, and any government employee detailed from an agency outside the Treasury Department access to Treasury Department payment systems or any other data maintained by the Treasury Department containing personally identifiable information.”

• 2/7/2025 Attorney General Tong Sues President Trump and Secretary of Treasury to Block DOGE Access to Confidential Records, Sensitive Data and Critical Payment Systems

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 19 attorneys general suing President Donald Trump, the U.S. Treasury and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to stop the unauthorized disclosure of Americans’ private information and sensitive data. The lawsuit asserts that the Trump Administration illegally provided Elon Musk and the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” unauthorized access to the Treasury Department’s central payment system, and therefore to Americans’ most sensitive personal information, including bank account details and Social Security numbers.

• 2/7/2025 Trump Administration Not Complying With Court Order to Unfreeze Federal Funding, Attorney General Tong Seeks to Enforce Temporary Restraining Order

  Citing evidence that the Trump Administration is continuing to block state funding out of compliance with the court order secured by Attorney General William Tong and 22 other state attorneys general, the coalition of states this afternoon filed a motion to enforce and a motion for preliminary injunction in NY v. Trump.

• 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.

• 2/6/2025 Attorney General Tong Releases Statement on DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general in releasing the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of the Treasury granting Elon Musk and his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) staffers access to sensitive payment systems containing Americans’ personally identifiable information.

• 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.

• 2/5/2025 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.

• 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.

• 2/4/2025 Attorney General Tong Joins Coalition of 20 Attorneys General Urging Senate to Demand Answers on Retaliation Efforts from FBI Director Nominee Kash Patel

  Attorney General William Tong joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general today sending a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, urging the Senate to require Kash Patel, President Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, to return for further questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The request follows alarming reports of politically motivated firings at the FBI and efforts to compile a list of agents involved in investigating the January 6th Capitol riots.

• 2/4/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces $59 Million False Claims Settlement with Pfizer-Owned Biohaven

  Attorney General William Tong announced today that Connecticut has joined the United States, 37 other states and Puerto Rico in settling kickback allegations against Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (“Biohaven”), a subsidiary wholly owned by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”).

• 2/3/2025 Attorney General Tong and 10 Other Attorneys General Warn Federal Employees About Misleading Buyout Offer

  Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of ten other attorneys general warning federal employees about the Trump administration’s misleading “deferred resignation” program, which offers federal employees pay through September 30, 2025 if they resign by February 6.

• 1/31/2025 Attorney General Tong Announces Initial Victory in Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Illegal Federal Funding Freeze

  Attorney General William Tong today announced an initial victory in the lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s Office of Management & Budget’s memo freezing federal grants and loans.

• 1/31/2025 Joint Statement from Twelve State Attorneys General: President Trump is Misleading the American People on Purpose of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Initiatives

  torney General William Tong, with the attorneys general of California, Delaware, Illinois, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, and Washington, today issued a joint statement addressing President Trump’s recent executive orders purporting to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) policies and programs – collectively referred to below as “DEIA”