Sean Duffy Announces He Just Yanked $160 Million From Blue State Over CDLs For Illegal Immigrants

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said on Tuesday he was pulling an additional $160 million in federal funding from California over the state issuing commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to illegal immigrants, warning that revoking the state’s ability to issue those licenses was on the table.

The Transportation Department accused California on Thursday of ignoring stricter guidelines for non-citizens applying for CDLs issued in September after an illegal immigrant driving a tractor-trailer killed three people in an accident near Ontario, California, on Oct. 21 while allegedly driving under the influence of drugs. Duffy told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night that the department was conducting a “quick review” of the state’s failure to comply with regulations in the aftermath of the fatal wreck.

“One guy who’s decided to up his game is Gavin Newsom , the podcaster, and he is… doesn’t seem relatively ambivalent with the truck driver doesn’t speak the language ended up killing some people over the weekend. You are withholding funds from California,” “Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade observed to Duffy, who responded, “We have withheld $40 million because they weren’t enforcing the English proficiency requirements. You gotta speak English, you gotta understand road signs, you gotta be able to talk to law enforcement. If you get pulled over or there is a crash, law enforcement has to be able to communicate with you. So, $40 million for that.”

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“Then there is a requirement that, an option, that you could come from Wisconsin to California and get a non-domiciled CDL. It was for Americans. The Democrats have contorted the law to allow people who are in the country… unlawfully, to get these licenses,” Duffy continued, with Kilmeade cutting in to add, “Who failed the test ten times.”