Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, speaks during a news conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday he will withhold $40 million from California because it is the only state that is failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers.

An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on August 12 found what Duffy called significant failures in the way California is enforcing rules that took effect in June after one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders. California had issued the driver a commercial license, but these English rules predate the crash.

Truckers are supposed to be disqualified if th

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