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(Background) California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on at Belvedere Middle School in Los Angeles on October 8, 2025. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) / (R) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 23: U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy during a press conference on air traffic controller pay and the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on October 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. The shutdown enters its fourth week, becoming the second longest government shutdown in history. (Photo by Eric Lee/Getty Images)

Transportation Secy. Duffy slams Calif. for issuing CDL to illegal alien before fatal crash: ‘Newsom didn’t follow guidance, now 3 people are dead’

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy criticized California and specifically its Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom, for permitting the state to issue Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) to illegal aliens, following another deadly crash involving a non-citizen driver from India that claimed three lives on Tuesday.

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Wind turbines generate electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022 near Block Island, Rhode Island. The first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States is located 3.8 miles from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean. The five-turbine, 30 MW project was developed by Deepwater Wind and began operations in December, 2016 at a cost of nearly $300 million. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Estados Unidos recorta de 679 millones de dólares en fondos federales para proyectos eólicos marinos

El Departamento de Transporte de Estados Unidos (DOT, por sus siglas en inglés) anunció el viernes que recortará alrededor de 679 millones de dólares en fondos destinados a 12 parques eólicos, calificando los proyectos de “despilfarro”. El dinero se redirigirá a la industria naval estadounidense para ayudar a garantizar el dominio marítimo del país, según el Secretario de Transporte, Sean Duffy.

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370225 03: Tractor-trailer rigs are parked at the Petro truck stop May 29, 2000in El Paso, TX. Many of the rigs now have modern wireless communications as well as cable television, refrigerators, double bunk beds, and microwave ovens. In the last few years trucks have become more like a home/office on the road. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

DOT Secy. Duffy: U.S. states that fail to enforce English Proficiency test for commercial drivers will lose federal funding

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that U.S. states that do not comply with English Language Proficiency (ELP) test requirements for commercial drivers will face federal funding cuts. The announcement follows an August 12th incident, when an illegal alien from India caused a crash that killed 3 Americans.

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