US threatens New York funding over truck driver licenses issued to immigrants

The U.S. Transportation Department on Friday threatened to pull tens of millions of dollars in funding from New York over commercial driver licenses improperly issued to non-U.S. citizens.

USDOT said New York must take actions to address concerns about immigrant truck drivers within 30 days or the state could lose federal highway funding. The agency in September issued an emergency regulation to drastically restrict commercial driver licenses to  after a fatal crash in Florida and a government audit. In August, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was immediately pausing the issuance of all worker visas for commercial truck drivers. 

(Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington)