Department of Transportation

A USDOT audit of state commercial driver’s license (CDL) programs has identified problems in eight states — California, New York, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, South Dakota, Colorado and Washington — leading California to revoke about 21,000 noncitizen CDLs and prompting threats to withhold nearly $75 million from Pennsylvania and $30.4 million from Minnesota while USDOT also pulled $40 million from California over English‑language enforcement issues. In New York, USDOT investigators found more than half of a 200‑license sample of non‑domiciled CDLs were improperly issued and said the state could not verify immigration status for roughly 32,000 such licenses — a finding the state DMV disputes — and nationwide enforcement has removed about 9,500 drivers for failing English‑proficiency checks even as a court has put USDOT’s stricter noncitizen CDL rule on hold.