Trump Admin Threatens to ‘Pull’ $73M in NY Funds Over ‘Illegal’ Truck Licenses for Immigrants

David Gilmour Dec 12th, 2025, 4:36 pm

President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to strip New York of $73 million in federal highway funding, citing claims the state has been issuing commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants “illegally.”

Duffy warned on Friday that New York’s entire commercial driver’s licence (CDL) programme could face “total decertification” unless Governor Kathy Hochul (D) moves swiftly to revoke licences the administration says were unlawfully approved.

Speaking at a press conference, Duffy said: “As we’ve done this nationwide audit, we found the worst offender, which is the state of New York: 53% of New York’s non-domiciled CDLs we

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