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14 Nov 2025
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California's CDL Crackdown Exposes the Real Cost of Federal Control

By Joshua Michael

California just revoked 17,000 commercial driver's licenses. The Trump administration is withholding $200 million in federal funding. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calls it "the tip of the iceberg."

This is about more than trucking licenses.

I see this as the Trump administration finding ways to keep roads safe and crack down on illegal immigration. The Biden administration granted those federal work authorizations illegally. This ties directly into the **Cloward-Piven strategy** to conquer the United States through massive migrant waves.

The Strategy Behind the Licenses

The endgame goes beyond just the trucking industry. This happens across all industries, but trucking represents a big part of the clamping down process.

When you make migrants feel safe and give them safe harbor, they can set up homes and raise families. The CDL licenses were part of a broader infrastructure to make illegal immigration permanent. Give them jobs, stability, and roots.

**Every illegal CDL sends a message that laws don't matter.**

I believe if we stop allowing this, we will have more order in our society and fewer foreigners coming here thinking they are above the law.

Federal Funding as a Weapon

The federal funding threat reveals something critical about how controlled our markets really are.

Our infrastructure depends heavily on federal funding. We aren't as free market as it appears. Federal and state subsidies distort private markets everywhere you look.

The question this raises: why is there so much federal involvement in private markets?

We are on borrowed time. With quantitative easing and printing of the money supply, every system eventually collapses. Given the current climate with the economy and BRICS nations looking to unseat the US dollar in the global market, we may have a time in the future where our dollar is no longer valuable around the world.

That will cause trillions of dollars to flood back into our nation's markets and cause hyperinflation, which will ultimately lead to collapse.

Why This Matters Now

If we're headed toward economic collapse, why spend political capital revoking 17,000 licenses right now?

**This is about pulling back on funding of unnecessary things.** If we can lower the federal budget, the collapse will be less damaging. It also ties into the safety of these illegal workers driving around the country when they shouldn't be here.

The trucking industry will suffer from it. This is a rip the bandaid off scenario.

Our society needs to understand there is no easy way to do it, but it has to be done.

The Real Numbers

New federal rules announced in September will drop eligible non-citizen commercial drivers from 200,000 down to just 10,000 nationwide. That's a 95% reduction.

Transportation Secretary Duffy found that one quarter of the 145 licenses they reviewed in California shouldn't have been issued. He cited four California licenses that remained valid after the driver's work permit expired, sometimes years after.

California is just the first domino. The federal audit found licenses issued improperly in California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington.

Setting the Precedent

This enforcement action represents the clamping down process happening across multiple industries.

The precedent matters more than the individual cases. When you allow people to come here illegally, get a license, and start living here with no repercussions, you create chaos.

Road safety is part of it. Several fatal truck crashes involving drivers without proper immigration status triggered this federal scrutiny. But the real issue is systemic.

**Illegal immigration undermines the rule of law.**

The disruption is necessary. The trucking industry will face short-term pain, but fewer available drivers means higher demand and potentially better pay for those who remain compliant.

What Happens Next

Duffy stated after the 17,000 license revocations: "This is just the tip of the iceberg. My team will continue to force California to prove they have removed every illegal immigrant from behind the wheel of semitrucks and school buses."

The administration intends to expand this crackdown far beyond California's borders.

This is the reality of restoring order. You can't build a stable society on a foundation of ignored laws and federal dependency. The borrowed time scenario we're living in demands we make hard choices now.

The CDL revocations are one piece of a larger puzzle. They expose how dependent our infrastructure is on federal funding, how distorted our markets have become, and how deep the problem of illegal immigration runs through every sector of our economy.

We're pulling back the curtain on a system that was never sustainable.

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