Young conservative Americans part of the America First wing have fixated on the visa program as they grow disillusioned with the president’s promises on immigration and frustrated with the job market.
The Trump administration gave New York 30 days to pause issuing all non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, among other demands, or risk losing $73 million in highway funds.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said New York’s commercial driver’s license standards represented “a systematically grossly unacceptable deviation from federal safety regulations.”