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Connecticut
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 26 stories to Connecticut since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Connecticut.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Connecticut
10 storiesJustice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them "onerous and outdated."
Over 75% of division staff gone
Nine states sue to block Trump administration deals paying wind developers to cancel offshore leases and invest in fossil fuel projects instead.
Used lawsuit fund though nobody sued
Federal judge restores construction on 87% complete Rhode Island wind farm, finding Trump administration's classified national security argument "insufficient" to justify December pause.
$1.44 million lost daily
DOJ sues Connecticut over law banning ICE masks and requiring agent ID, after Ninth Circuit struck down similar California rule on Supremacy Clause.
Bans courthouse, school, church arrests
Trump administration sues Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona to block state gambling regulators from overseeing prediction markets where traders have profited from the president's military strikes.
Donald Trump Jr. advises both leading platforms
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
State investigation reveals Bridgeport, CT, officer having a panic attack took the ambulance called for a man police shot in the back, who died in surgery after a 12-minute delay.
"I just needed to get out of here"
Trump administration orders review of all federal funding to 14 Democratic-led states and DC, directing agencies to report grants, loans, and contracts by Monday; memo claims effort is "data-gathering," not withholding.
Virginia added after initial memo
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
NYC, Hawaii schools targeted
Federal judge orders Energy Department to restore clean energy grants after administration admitted in court that blue-state location was "a primary reason" for cancellations.
$8 billion in grants affected
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesSeven states sue to block the administration's $795 million deal paying a foreign energy company to abandon offshore wind off New York and New Jersey and drill oil and gas instead.
Move follows repeated administration court losses
Twenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
Rhode Island's Revolution Wind starts powering 350,000 homes and businesses after suing to overturn Trump's suspension of five offshore wind leases.
704 megawatts, 65 turbines, 1,000 jobs
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