Feds withhold $160 million over immigrant truckers’ licenses

January 8, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom

By KAREN VELIE

After California delayed cancelling immigrant truckers’ licenses, the Trump administration announced on Wednesday it will withhold $160 million in funding to the Golden State.

California had planned to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses by Jan. 5 that the feds said were improperly issued to illegal immigrants. However, an immigrant rights groups brought a lawsuit.

California then paused its plan and the feds announced the withholding of funds.

“It’s reckoning day for Gavin Newsom and California,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Our demands were simple: follow the rules, revoke the unlawfully-issued licenses to dangerous foreign drivers, and fix the system so this never happens again. Gavin Newsom has failed to do so — putting the needs of illegal immigrants over the safety of the American people.”

 


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The issue is not so much a driver shortage is that US drivers are starting to wise up and not work for the bottom feeder trucking company’s, swift, knight, prime and several others pay below what US drivers should be paid, the govt gives incentives to these companys to train and hire drivers,and pays a portion of their wages and after a period of time 1 to 2 years they find a way to get rid of drivers because the pay scale was to go up and a new batch is brought in, there is a revolving door for many companys, the people that are causing all the accidents we have been seeing are quite often illegal and can not read nor speak english, take the driver a few days ago that got stuck in the median at the 46/41 interchange, he missed the signage for where he wanted to go so he attempted a u turn in the mud and shut down the highway, o and there are signs that say no u turns, these illegals work for half pay scale than we do and this is what we get.


Was there a shortage of US citizen drivers?… why do this in the first place?…


Outstanding!