WA erred in granting hundreds of commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens

WA erred in granting hundreds of commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens

Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard

December 09, 2025 / 10:04 am

The issue has flared up after a fatal truck crash in Florida earlier this year.

Washington state mistakenly issued nearly 700 licenses to drive trucks and buses to noncitizens who don’t qualify over the past seven years.

This issue has drawn heavy criticism from the Trump administration and others after a semitruck driver, Harjinder Singh, allegedly made an illegal U-turn and killed three people in Florida. Singh wrongfully received a standard commercial driver’s license from Washington state, the state Department of Licensing concluded.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has since threatened to withhold federal highway fund