WASHINGTON (TNND) — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that he’s withholding $40 million in federal funding from California because the state has not complied with his rules requiring truck drivers to be proficient in the English language.

All the states have complied but one, that would be California. (Governor) Gavin Newsom cares more about migrants than he does about the safety of his citizens or the citizens around the country,” Duffy told Fox News this week.

Duffy announced these new rules amid the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown, but also after a series of recent fatal crashes. Including this summer in Florida, when an illegal migrant truck driver who had a California commercial license killed three people while trying to make a U-turn in a semi-truck.

These are the kind of risks that some of these drivers take when they don’t understand the rules. They don’t understand our culture but they also don’t understand, if a crash happens, how to communicate with law enforcement,” Duffy told Fox.

Duffy said since June, over 6,000 truck drivers have been pulled off the road for failing an English proficiency test. Last week, DHS announced the arrest of an illegal alien, Anmol Anmol, who was driving an 18-wheeler with a CDL issued to “No Name Given Anmol.”

New York state has been giving out licenses illegally to illegal aliens. Literally it says “no name given” on the driver’s license,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News.

During an exclusive interview with Sinclair’s WBFF, Duffy also commented on the nationwide “No Kings” protests scheduled for this weekend. He expressed concern about Antifa participating and those backing the movement.

I’m all about free speech. I’m all about protests. It’s the great American way. I am concerned about whose funding this, whose paying for it, whose organizing it,” said Duffy.

Spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Diana Crofts-Pelayo, did issue a response to the withheld funding.

The reality is simple: Commercial driver’s license holders in California had a fatal accident rate nearly 40% LOWER than the national average. Texas, the only state with more commercial driver’s license holders, has a rate nearly 50% higher than California’s,” Crofts-Pelayo told Fox News Digital.