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Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 25 states in suing the Trump Administration over its decision to freeze $6.8 billion in funding for six longstanding programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education, including over $53 million for Connecticut schools.

The coalition alleged that loss of the funding will cause "immediate and severe harm to schools nationwide" and that "already, ongoing summer learning programs have been left unfunded."

Attorney General Tong and the coalition asked the court to declare the funding freeze unlawful, and block any attempts to withhold or delay this funding.

“Trump and Linda McMahon are stealing from Connecticut schools to fund tax cuts for billionaires, and its our kids and our teachers who are paying the price," Tong whined, sure to repeat the Democrats' "tax cuts for billionaires" line.

"We stopped Trump when he tried to defund Head Start, when he tried to defund disaster relief and energy assistance, when he tried to defund our police, cancer research, and our libraries. We are back in court yet again to make sure our schools and our kids get every penny that our tax dollars paid for,” boasted Tong.

“One of the most important things we can do as a nation is to create more opportunities for children by funding K-12 education," said Tong as he completely ignored the fact that our schools are failing and throwing more money into a broken system won't magically fix it.

Governor Ned Lamont joined Tong in slamming the Trump Administration.

"As if kicking people off their health insurance, reducing funding to hospitals, and limiting food and nutrition wasn’t harmful enough, the Trump administration has reached a new low by withholding federal funds for after-school and other enrichment programs," said Lamont. "We demand that this federal funding be restored and thank Attorney General Tong for his efforts."

Of course they never mention that Trump is taking steps to stop the funding of illegal immigrants, to stop the indoctrination of students in schools, and to eliminate other waste, fraud and abuse.

State Rep. Jenn Leeper, co-chair of the General Assembly's Education Committee, added a healthy dose of fear mongering, calling the funding cut "the worst case scenario we've feared since his inauguration."

"Withholding congressionally approved funding causes chaos across the board - our children are not served or cared for, our nonprofits are depleted, and our most vulnerable residents are punished the most," said Leeper, who seems to think that the state owns the children and that progressive nonprofits are entitled to taxpayer money.

She continued, unironically, "the federal government shouldn't be working against us; it should be working with us and for us," as if people have forgotten what life was like under democrat rule during covid.

Senator Doug McCrory, co-chair of the General Assembly’s Education Committee, complained that the federal government "broke a promise" and argued it "does real harm to our schools and our kids." They aren't your kids, Doug, just like they aren't Jenn's kids.

The Connecticut Education Association, the teachers union which once again prioritized social justice, equity and political activism for the coming year, is equally upset about the "reckless decision" to cut the funding.

CEA President Kate Dias promised the union won't just stand by while the Trump Administration "plays politics" with students' futures, even though that's exactly what her union voted to do when it prioritized social justice, equity and political activism. They hypocrisy is rich.

Her comrade Mary Yordan over at the AFT, the other major teachers union in Connecticut, thought the funding cut was "an unnecessary and cruel bomb on students and their families" and suggested that children would go "starving" as a result.

In today’s lawsuit, Tong and the coalition argue that the Trump Administration’s actions violate federal funding statutes and Appropriations Act, Apportionment, the Administrative Procedures Act and U.S. Constitution, including the separation of powers doctrine, equitable ultra vires, and the Presentment Clause. The lawsuit seeks both declaratory and injunctive relief—to declare the funding freeze unlawful and block Trump from withholding these critical funds.

Attorney General Tong joins the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Arizona, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania in filing today's lawsuit.

A copy of the lawsuit is available here and you can watch the full press conference below.

Meanwhile, if you think the democrats representing the Connecticut "education" contingent represented in today's press conference were upset, wait until they start reacting to the Supreme Court decision today in Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education v. New York.

The decision effectively means that the Trump Administration can proceed with massive reductions in the size of the US Department of Education, as planned.

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