{"id":124355,"date":"2026-01-07T23:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:40:14","slug":"us-withholds-160-million-from-california-over-foreign-truck-driver-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124355\/","title":{"rendered":"US withholds $160 million from California over foreign truck-driver licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. \u200bTransportation Department said \u200con Wednesday it is \u200cwithholding approximately $160 million in federal funds from the \u2060state \u200cof California for failing to \u200dcancel over 17,000 improperly issued commercial driver\u2019s \u200blicenses held by \u200cnon-U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The department first warned in September it could take action. USDOT said \u2060California had \u200bfailed to \u200brevoke the licenses by the \u200dagreed \u2060upon deadline of January 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by \u2060David Shepardson in Washington; \u200cEditing by \u200cChris Reese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. \u200bTransportation Department said \u200con Wednesday it is \u200cwithholding approximately $160 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,7200,49840,8295,8603,7197],"class_list":["post-124355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-commercial-driver","tag-david-shepardson","tag-federal-funds","tag-state-of-california","tag-transportation-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}