Trump threatens to cut $75M from Pennsylvania over illegal immigrant CDL scandal
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration will withhold $75 million in federal funding from Pennsylvania if it does not clean up its commercial driver's license (CDL) rolls after an Uzbek...
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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration will withhold $75 million in federal funding from Pennsylvania if it does not clean up its commercial driver's license (CDL) rolls after an Uzbek terror-suspect trucker was nabbed in Kansas holding a PennDOT license, it announced Thursday. Pennsylvania state Sen. Jarrett Coleman, R-Allentown, previously shared a letter with Fox News Digital that he sent to the Shapiro administration warning of a growing crisis after a previous, similar incident. Gov. Josh Shapiro responded Wednesday, saying it was the Trump administration’s fault Akhror Bozorov’s name remained in a federal database of noncitizens with work permits, while DHS maintained that being present in that database did not indicate legal immigration status. In his warning to Pennsylvania on Thursday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a review by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found Harrisburg had violated existing federal safety regulations by issuing "non-domicile" CDLs "illegally." BLUE STATES DEFLECT BLAME IN TRUMP PROBE AFTER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TRUCKER CRASH KILLS 3 IN FLORIDA Duffy’s office said PennDOT wrongly issued licenses to "ineligible foreigners without verifying their legal status." "Under President Trump, this Department is taking every measure to ensure dangerous foreign drivers aren’t illegally operating 40-ton vehicles on American roads," Duffy said. " Joe Biden allowed tens of millions of illegals to pour into our country through open borders, including a suspected terrorist who Pennsylvania then allowed to get behind the wheel of a semitruck." TRUCKERS WARN OF 'FOREIGN INVASION' AS DHS CRACKS DOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DRIVERS Fox News Digital also obtained a copy of the letter Duffy will send Thursday to Shapiro and PennDOT Secretary Michael Carroll, a fellow Democrat and former state representative from Lackawanna County. "Pennsylvania is an important partner in FMCSA's mission to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities…