Reuters
David Shepardson
24 April 2025
The Trump administration said on Thursday states could lose transportation funding over a failure to cooperate on federal immigration enforcement efforts or for maintaining diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told states and other grant recipients in a letter that recipients of Transportation Department financial assistance must ensure personnel practices are "merit-based."
Duffy noted that some states that have received financial assistance have declined to cooperate with federal immigration investigations or issued driver’s licenses to individuals present in the United States in violation of federal immigration law.
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