The State of California is so committed to letting people who don't speak English become truckers, that they'd rather give those people licenses than get $40 million in federal funding.
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Yes, the Trump administration is withholding $40 million from California.
Remember this?
This triggered all of these changes and forced the DoT to tell states that they can't give licenses to people who can't speak English.
Here's the Associated Press:
An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what Duffy called significant failures in the way California is enforcing rules that took effect in June after one of President Donald Trump's executive orders. California had issued the driver a commercial license, but these English rules predate the crash.
Truckers are supposed to be disqualified if they can't demonstrate English proficiency, and Duffy said the driver involved in the crash should not have been given a commercial license because of his immigration status. The crash has become increasingly political, with the governors of California and Florida criticizing each other and Duffy highlighting the administration's immigration concerns in interviews.
But California has remained defiant, basically arguing that California drivers don't have a high number of wrecks so we should excuse them giving CDLs to illegals who can't speak English.
Here's a word of advice to anyone on highways with truckers who don't speak English:
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