The U.S. Department of Transportation will withhold $73.5 million in federal funding from New York for failing to revoke illegally issued commercial learner’s permits and commercial driver’s licenses to foreign nationals, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced April 16.
“I promised the American people I would hold any state leader accountable for failing to keep them safe from unvetted, unqualified foreign drivers,” Duffy said in a statement. “My message to New York’s far left leadership is clear: families must be prioritized on American roads.”
An audit performed last year by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) within the Transportation Department found that more than half of New York’s commercial driver’s licenses issued to “non-domiciled” drivers, who are people not living in the state or are non-citizens, were issued illegally….