{"id":253180,"date":"2026-07-27T20:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253180\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:29:18","slug":"trump-administration-launches-cdl-push-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253180\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Launches CDL Push For Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-06-23t173508z_537036515_rc2tzladntzp_rtrmadp_3_usa-trump-7.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"u-s-president-trump-visits-pennsylvania-5\" wpb-att-id=\"476082\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-06-23t173508z_537036515_rc2tzladntzp_rtrmadp_3_usa-trump-7.webp\" class=\"lazy lazy-hidden alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"u-s-president-trump-visits-pennsylvania-5\" wpb-att-id=\"476082\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-06-23t173508z_537036515_rc2tzladntzp_rtrmadp_3_usa-trump-7.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"u-s-president-trump-visits-pennsylvania-5\" wpb-att-id=\"476082\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"featuredImageCaption\">U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Reading Regional Airport in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 23, 2026. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein<\/p>\n<p>(Washington, DC) \u2013 The Trump administration is launching a new campaign to connect military veterans with commercial trucking careers.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the effort will help veterans move quickly into CDL training and licensing programs, including pathways that can use existing military driving experience.<\/p>\n<p>The administration says the campaign is also aimed at strengthening the trucking workforce after thousands of drivers lost licenses under new eligibility and English-language enforcement rules.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters say veterans are a natural fit for high-demand logistics jobs. Critics of the broader crackdown argue the policy has unfairly targeted immigrant drivers and could worsen driver shortages in some regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Reading Regional Airport in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 23, 2026. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-253180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}