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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has been on a legal bender ever since President Donald Trump assumed office on January 20, 2025, filing his most recent action against the Trump Administration just yesterday over lost education funding.

Republican State Senators Jeff Gordon, Henri Martin, Rob Sampson, and Jason Perillo wrote to Tong on May 2, 2025, looking for answers about his lawfare efforts.

Tong responded yesterday, saying that he is not personally engaged in lawfare, but that the actions are "taken by the state of Connecticut."

"While it is true that the residents of this state have twice entrusted these decisions to my judgment, in all cases the state of Connecticut is the party, not William Tong," wrote the Attorney General.

Tong defended the actions of his office, saying, "the actions take by the Office of the Attorney General since January 20, 2025 have protected Connecticut families and the state from billions of dollars in damage."

"If the Office had not acted in the more than twenty lawsuits we have filed thus far—and we did not secure injunctions stopping billions upon billions of dollars in cuts—then that money would be gone," wrote Tong. "The majority of this funding was appropriated by Congress either directly or through program-related grants to the state of Connecticut, and has been wrongfully cut by the federal government in gross violation of the Congress’s prerogative and the plain terms of the Constitution of the United States."

Tong claims that his lawfare efforts have had "no net cost to the state of Connecticut" because he asserts his "office has saved the state billions of dollars that would have otherwise been lost."

He further claims that his Office "has not used state resources to hire additional employees to handle these federal matters" and that existing staff is "working around the clock, seven days a week... in addition to their other duties" to handle the lawfare efforts.

"On a net basis, the cost of the litigation is negative billions of dollars. Our efforts cost the state nothing, and instead saves untold dollars in federal funding cuts averted," alleged Tong, dodging the question since it is clear time is being spent on these efforts, so there is definitely an opportunity cost and employee costs that are being obfuscated.

You can read his full letter below.

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