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🚨December 12, 2025 – Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced today that a federal audit revealed 53% of New York’s commercial driver’s licenses issued to non-U.S. residents were granted unlawfully, the highest rate in the nation.The FMCSA sampled 200 of roughly 32,000 active non-domiciled CDLs and found widespread violations: missing immigration-status verification and eight-year licenses exceeding legal work permits.Duffy gave New York 30 days to revoke the improper licenses, stop new issuances, and conduct its own audit, or lose at least $73 million in federal highway funds.New York DMV called the audit a “political stunt” and insisted it follows federal rules. Governor Hochul has not yet commented.The action is part of a broader crackdown on states issuing CDLs to unauthorized foreign nationals.How did New York let 17,000 potentially unqualified truck drivers onto the road for years?