Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain 12/12/2025
“But we also found that New York many times won’t even verify whether they have a work authorization, they have a visa, or they’re in the country legally.”Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to withdraw $73 million from New York after an investigation found that 53% of those with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) were issued illegally.
Duffy said:
53% of New York’s non-domiciled CDLs were issued unlawfully or illegally. Now what New York does is, if an applicant comes in and they have a work authorization for 30 days, 60 days, one year, New York automatically issues them an eight year commercial driver’s license. That’s contrary to the law. That’s one offense.
But we also found that New York many times won’t even verify whether they have a work authorization, they have a visa, or they’re in the country legally. So they’re just giving eight year commercial driver’s licenses to people who are coming through their DMV and sending them out on American roadways, and again, they’re endangering the lives of American families. I don’t like that. I have to do this, the law requires me to do this.
I’m going to give New York 30 days because that’s what the law requires to come into compliance with the rules that have been long standing at the Department of Transportation. If they come into compliance, we’re going to work with them.
If New York refuses to come into compliance, because Kathy Hochul, for some reason, believes that we should have unqualified truck drivers on American roadways, we are going to pull tens of millions of dollars as phase one for the state of New York.
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https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/duffy-threatens-to-pull-funds-from-new-york-over-illegal-cdls/
