Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy REVOKES 17,000 Illegally-Issued California CDLs from Foreigners

The state of California has admitted to illegally issuing thousands of commercial driver’s licenses to foreign truck drivers.

These are immigrants who may not even understand enough English to read road signs and pose a huge danger on the roads.

In response, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just revoked them all!

Here are the details:

BREAKING: California admits they illegally issued 17,000 non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses to “dangerous foreign drivers.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’s revoking all of them.

Democrats gave CDLs to foreigners who don’t speak English or understand our… pic.twitter.com/wpZhCIYmKx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2025

BREAKING: California admits they illegally issued 17,000 non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses to “dangerous foreign drivers.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’s revoking all of them.

Democrats gave CDLs to foreigners who don’t speak English or understand our road signs who now drive massive trucks on our roads.

This is truly astonishing.

And, Secretary Duffy says he believes this is just the tip of the iceberg.

He posted on X:

🚨 @CAGovernor and his state were caught red-handed after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong.

Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked.

This is just the beginning. California must revoke every illegally issued CDL or… https://t.co/wAFy6CnN2A

— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) November 12, 2025

🚨 @CAGovernor and his state were caught red-handed after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong.

Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked.

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This is just the beginning. California must revoke every illegally issued CDL or I will pull $160 million in federal funds.

Secretary Duffy has also pulled millions of dollars in funding from California over their refusal to comply with federal orders to require English-language proficiency in order to obtain a commercial driver’s license.

A press release from the Department of Transportation has more details:

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy announced today that the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to dangerous foreign drivers. Thanks to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) ongoing audit, each of these licenses is being revoked.

“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed. Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked,” said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. “This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses.”

Notices have been issued to the 17,000 non-domiciled CDL holders that their license no longer meets federal requirements and will expire in 60 days. FMCSA requires California to provide its full audit of all its non-domiciled CDLs so the agency can verify that every illegally issued license has been revoked and that the failures that allowed these licenses to be issued are corrected.

Reminder:

FMCSA’s nationwide non-domiciled CDL audit uncovered systemic policy, procedural, and programming errors in California’s non-domiciled CDL program which allowed thousands of CDLs to be illegally issued to foreign drivers. The audit also found that more than one in four of the non-domiciled CDL records sampled in California failed to comply with federal regulations. This includes issuing licenses that extended well beyond a foreigner’s work permit.

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Other FMSCA actions against California:

In October, the Department announced it is withholding over $40 million from California following an investigation that found the state has failed to comply with the Department’s English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards.

The Department first threatened to withhold funds from California in August if they failed to adopt and enforce ELP requirements for commercial motor vehicle drivers. In July, California Highway Patrol has publicly stated

it had no intention of following this important federal regulation.

In May, Secretary Duffy signed an order announcing new guidelines to strengthen English language enforcement for commercial truck operators. Under the new guidance, commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers who fail to comply with FMCSA longstanding English-language proficiency (ELP) requirements will be placed out-of-service.

This is a very serious matter.

California has been endangering the lives of U.S. citizens by allowing foreigners who don’t even speak English to drive on our roads.

In fact, many Americans have been killed as a result of their dangerous, illegal actions.

This is just one example:

Illegal took the lives of three people by making an illegal U-Turn with a truck in Florida on Tuesday.

Harjinder Singh faces state charges then’ll be deported.

He entered the US illegally in 2018 and got his CDL in California even though an illegal.

This tragedy was avoidable. pic.twitter.com/YjFC50PNpw

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) August 17, 2025

It’s time to hold California accountable and Make American Roads Safe Again!

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