Tong Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, we are told by Hartford Courant political reporter Chris Keating and Tong himself, is on a mission. He has been putting in the hours, “working seven days a week as he battles executive orders and federal spending freezes by President Donald J. Trump in cases both locally and nationally.” Tong is mandated by his position as Attorney General of Connecticut, he believes, to serve as a “check and balance” against President Donald Trump and efforts within his administration to oversee the spending of tax dollars. “The lawsuits we [Tong and other attorneys general] have filed, particularly against Elon Musk and DOGE, are really important as a check on these guys,” Tong has said. “If there is no one checking these guys, there are no checks and balances, then they are unrestricted with unchecked, unrestricted power, and they can do whatever they want to hurt the people they don’t like who are their political, and I should s...
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