Moving Connecticut ForwardAccomplishments

Under Attorney General Tong’s leadership during his first two terms, the Office of the Attorney General generated and protected over $5.2 billion for the state, over 22 times its operating costs. This includes millions of dollars in direct restitution to Connecticut families who needed help with healthcare bills, travel disruptions, scammers, and the protection of charitable funds. This does not begin to include the billions saved by state taxpayers through competent and professional representation and defense of our state agencies or our actions to protect Connecticut funding and families against lawless federal overreach.

Attorney General Tong has sued Donald Trump more than 50 times. In courts across the country, he is winning again and again. When Donald Trump tried to ban birthright citizenship on day one, Attorney General Tong sued and Connecticut is blocking him. When Trump tried to defund our schools, our law enforcement, our healthcare, food for hungry children and medical research, Attorney General Tong sued and stopped him. When Elon Musk and his unelected DOGE tech bros tried to dismantle the government, Attorney General Tong sued and stopped them. On tariffs, on gender-affirming care, and so much more, Attorney General Tong has been leading the firewall to protect Connecticut families and he is winning.

Attorney General Tong has secured historic recoveries against the addiction industry, delivering over $50 billion to fight the opioid epidemic and put Purdue and the Sackler Family out of the business. He’s taking on Eversource and United Illuminating to fight for families getting crushed by unaffordable utility bills. He’s leading the crack down on illegal cannabis, and he’s standing up to Big Tech and the social media giants profiting off harm to our kids. He has fought to strengthen Connecticut’s civil rights laws, as well as protections against fraud and abuse. He has led breakthroughs in multistate efforts to curb obnoxious robocalls and bring scammers to justice, secured relief from predatory student loan practices, and hundreds of millions of dollars and a commitment from JUUL to stop marketing their vaping products to kids.

He’s fighting in every court in every state where reproductive freedom is under attack. He’s standing up to the gun lobby to protect Connecticut’s assault weapons ban and high capacity magazine ban from baseless legal attacks. He is taking on ExxonMobil to end its ongoing, systematic campaign of lies around fossil fuels and climate change. He has led some of the largest data breach and privacy settlements in world history, including those with Equifax and Anthem, and recently announced a $391.5 million settlement with Google over its location tracing practices. After decades of litigation, under his leadership the Office of the Attorney General resolved two of the most challenging, longest running state lawsuits, by committing to historic investments in educational opportunities in the Sheff v. O’Neill case and finally ending court oversight of the State’s child protective services, following significant improvement on behalf of our state’s most vulnerable children in the Juan F. class action.