The Trump administration is targeting states over English language requirements for truck drivers. Washington, California, and New Mexico are under pressure from the Department of Transportation to enforce these requirements or face losing federal funds.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy emphasized the safety concerns linked to this issue.

"We need to make sure that those who are driving big rigs, semis, can understand, the, the, the road signs. That they've been well trained," Duffy said.

The states have been given a 30-day deadline to comply or risk losing millions in funding. This enforcement push follows a fatal crash in Florida involving a truck driver who was allegedly in the U.S. illegally and failed an English test.

In response to the incident, work visas for truck drivers ar

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