{"id":14508,"date":"2025-10-16T08:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/duffy-pulls-40m-from-california-over-english-only-trucker-rule\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:20:45","slug":"duffy-pulls-40m-from-california-over-english-only-trucker-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/duffy-pulls-40m-from-california-over-english-only-trucker-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Duffy pulls $40M from California over English-only trucker rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Wednesday it is withholding more than $40 million in federal highway safety funding from California, over the state failing to comply with English language proficiency guidelines for commercial drivers. &ldquo;I put states on notice this summer: enforce the Trump Administration&rsquo;s English language requirements or the checks stop coming,&rdquo; Transportation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/5557644-duffy-pulls-40m-california-english-only-trucker-rule\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Wednesday it is withholding more than $40 million in federal highway safety funding from California, over the state failing to comply with English language proficiency guidelines for commercial drivers. &ldquo;I put states on notice this summer: enforce the Trump Administration&rsquo;s English language requirements or the checks stop coming,&rdquo; Transportation&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}