'Caught red-handed': Gavin Newsom busted by feds for issuing stunning number of licenses to foreign-born truck drivers * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Transportation reveals California has issued 17,000 commercial licenses to “dangerous” foreign-born truck drivers.
“After weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong, Gavin Newsom and California have been caught red-handed,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday.
“Now that we’ve exposed their lies, 17,000 illegally issued trucking licenses are being revoked.”
This is Gavin Newsom’s California.
How many more lives is it going to take for @CAgovernor to put the American people first? pic.twitter.com/ieh46T7IE8
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) October 26, 2025
“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.”
The announcement comes in the wake of an ongoing Trump administration probe into fatal highway crashes involving illegal-alien truckers and how they received their licenses.
“I’m about to pull $160M from California — and as we pull more money, we also have the option of pulling California’s ability to issue commercial driver’s licenses,” says @SecDuffy.
“Newsom cares more about illegals getting CDLs than he does the citizens of his own state.” pic.twitter.com/9w1wWNNRpa
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 26, 2025
Those who currently possess an illegal commercial driver’s license from the Golden State have been notified their CDL will expire in 60 days.
Additionally, the U.S. DOT department will examine California’s audit of its CDL system to “verify that every illegally issued license has been revoked and that the failures that allowed these licenses to be issued are corrected.”
(Photo by Joe Kovacs)
Duffy began his crackdown after an Indian national truck driver made an illegal U-turn in St. Lucie County on Florida’s Turnpike, causing three people to be killed in a subsequent wreck. The driver, 28-year-old Harjinder Singh, was arrested in August. He is an illegal alien and was issued his trucking permit by California.
This. I don’t know what could be more revealing; thank you.
I will never forget this moment. Over 1.65 Million Indians (presumably), show their support to their fellow Indian, because he is Indian. The dead American’s lives are meaningless. This was no mistake. He and his… https://t.co/ntyn29aJ2c
— Elizabeth Farah America 1st always (@ElizabethFarah) August 24, 2025
DOT figures released in September revealed more than 25% of non-domiciled CDLs reviewed in its audit were improperly issued by California.
“California’s reckless disregard is frankly disgusting and an affront to the millions of Americans who expect us to keep them safe,” Duffy said at the time.
“California must get its act together immediately or I will not hesitate to pull millions in funding.”
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