Tong joins lawsuit opposing federal grant cuts

CTNewsJunkie – Wednesday, June 25, 2025
By Donald Eng

HARTFORD, CT — Attorney General William Tong has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general suing the Trump administration over what he called its unprecedented and unlawful attempts to invoke a single provision buried in the federal regulations to strip away billions of dollars in critical federal funding for states and other grantees. The lawsuit seeks to limit the administration’s use of this regulation to terminate funding for anti-crime efforts, education, protecting clean drinking water, medical and scientific research, public health, addressing food insecurity, and more.

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