The US Department of Transport has announced today that it will withhold the federal funding of California, Washington and New Mexico, unless these states adopt measures certifying that professional truck drivers are well aware of English. President Donald Trump’s government has taken a series of measures on this issue and last week, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the issuance of a work visa for professional truck drivers stopped, with immediate effect. Transport Minister Sean Duffy said today that the ministry would withhold about $ 50 million from federal funding if these states do not comply within 30 days with the executive decree signed by Trump in April and concerned the linguistic competence of the drivers. The states did not immediately respond to requests for a comment. Last week Duffy said the Federal Transport Security Service (FMCSA) undertook to investigate a crash […]
Source: News Beast
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