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    1. From the article:

      Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to freeze $73 million from New York on Friday for allegedly issuing commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants „illegally,“ which could result in the „total decertification“ of the state’s CDL program.

      Roughly 18% of all truck drivers are immigrants, and the often-grueling industry is already short of tens of thousands of drivers.

    2. It’s like a civil war already, sending troops and masked (red) goons to blue cities, and now also threatening various states with withholding all federal funding, most recently Indiana but California too IIRC. He threatened all SNAP food aid for 21 specifically blue states too.

    3. Ok-Cow-8352 on

      They’re going to be removed soon and everything they’ve done is going to be undone. It would be great if they could stop trying now. They’re just annoying us at this point.

    4. BrightMarvel10 on

      „Threatened to“ Always making threats, never actually doing anything. I’m not going to worry until they actually start following through on their idiotic games.

    5. The teamsters aren’t to be fucked with…this is stupid on so many levels, especially since they are lying about what is happening again…

    6. Meme_Theory on

      Fun fact, Texas does this shit too. Don’t see Duffy jumping down their throats.

    7. As if tariffs weren’t enough to increase inflation, now they are messing with the supply chain.

    8. imahugemoron on

      Imagine if Biden and Obama did anything like this to a red state simply for political retribution.

    9. Whaleflop229 on

      Time is short for this shameful government. This is not the path to greatness.

    10. thistimelineisweird on

      It’s about time Blue States stopped fulfilling orders to Red States. 

    11. move-it-along on

      It might be appropriate to stop all truck deliveries to all Trump owned and managed buildings and venues in New York. The family ought to feel what it’s like to have trucking services no longer available.

    12. _TheLonelyStoner on

      Can’t think of anything dumber than taking a mass of truckers off the roads during the peak of the holiday season. These fuckers have no plan or actual ideas for anything. they just scream “Illegal alien” and “cut” more funding that will actually just be redirected straight into the pockets of a friend, family member, or business interest. The whole administration has been robbing us blind all year! all of this stuff with ICE, Venezuela , tariffs, etc is a distraction from them literally pilfering the US treasury.

    13. Wise_Quality_5083 on

      Do it and reap the fallout. This will hurt the Republicans even more. So sick of their threats and posturing

    14. I’m at the point with this administration where I’m just like, „sure, why not?“ What pointless chaos are we going to threaten today and walk back tomorrow? How dumb can people be and still remember to breathe? We’re finding out!

    15. When is this idiot going to learn not to fuck with New York? Where does he think good lawyers live?

    16. CutiepieBbyxo on

      Using federal funding as a political weapon isn’t governance, it’s extortion. California shouldn’t have to pay the price for policies they support that don’t align with the administration’s agenda.

    17. CharlesIngalls_Pubes on

      Anyone still supporting the pant-shitter ought to be ashamed. Every other day it comes out that Trump did something he told his base that Biden would do, and they clutched the fuck out of their pearls when they *think* Biden was doing something. Now Trump can actually do something he accused Biden of doing, and the magats are more than happy to go along.

    18. HavingNotAttained on

      Yes, I think disrupting New York’s economy is a fantastic plan to rejuvenate America’s wealth building, what an absolute genius.

    19. mfeldmannRNE on

      When are we just going to say “Fuck You!“? New York should just close their borders, join with the rest of the North East states and secede. Let’s keep our federal tax money and fund the things that we need. We would have one of the top 10 GDPs in the world.

    20. Revolutionary-pawn on

      lol. Impossible to enforce. You can take the licenses, sure. Companies WILL just run unlicensed drivers. ESPECIALLY in NYC, where they’ll have absolutely no choice BUT to run unlicensed drivers. And the government will either have to enforce the law strictly and not have ANY truckers delivering to NYC, with all the repercussions that would bring; or not at all, OR selectively enforce it and face all the litigation THAT would bring. Call their bluff.

    21. Lately, all Trump has been doing is inflict dmg to blue states – this, Fannie Mae move

      He is lashing out cus he has been polling poorly and the affordability promise he isn’t keeping

    22. StuntmanReese on

      FAFO. These “illegals” are doing jobs nobody wants. Trucking sucks! Have you done it? This administration just wants to destroy or economy, America first, bullshit. If that were true they would have found a way to fast track citizenship and laid out a plan for healthcare.

    23. Thinking-Crab-6358 on

      Yeah, but what about the Epstein files? Guess he thought starting a war would distract everyone.

    24. How fucking stupid and evil are these people? There is never a low low enough.

    25. I really hate the people that voted for him especially after the terrible first term now we all suffer

    26. Sweaty-taxman on

      So, if they do this, New York won’t pay federal income taxes. Bam, well above 73 million bucks.

    27. Fast_Loquat_4982 on

      Doesn’t he realize that if there are no truckers how is all the food going to get to the grocery stores and then there will food shortages

    28. The Port of New York and New Jersey is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, ports in the US, bring in a majority of goods. No truckers to get those goods would hurt the overall US economy.

    29. Know what thus struggling Trump-conomy needs?  Just a little grit in the oil so the economic engine seizes up.

      Seriously–we’d want to stop local transport of goods in one of biggest states when we’re already experiencing inflation and reduced exports over Trump’s poorly conceived tariffs.

      Over the last week Republican have been echoing the same talking point that it’s unfair to blame the President because at the end of the day there’s only so much he can do.  The reality is either he doesn’t underdtand what’s driving the economy or he’s actively been trying to tank it–between government layoffs, freezing government funded research, tariffs killing exports, letting ACA subsidies lapse making health care cost more than double for millions of householdd, and now proposing invalidating the commercial driver’s licences of everyone in one of the biggest states, the Trump administration has gone out of its way to shock the economy into recession.

      Republicans are trying to impoverish us all.

    30. Know what thus struggling Trump-conomy needs?  Just a little grit in the oil so the economic engine seizes up.

      Seriously–we’d want to stop local transport of goods in one of biggest states when we’re already experiencing inflation and reduced exports over Trump’s poorly conceived tariffs.

      Over the last week Republican have been echoing the same talking point that it’s unfair to blame the President because at the end of the day there’s only so much he can do.  The reality is either he doesn’t underdtand what’s driving the economy or he’s actively been trying to tank it–between government layoffs, freezing government funded research, tariffs killing exports, letting ACA subsidies lapse making health care cost more than double for millions of householdd, and now proposing invalidating the commercial driver’s licences of everyone in one of the biggest states, the Trump administration has gone out of its way to shock the economy into recession.

      Republicans are trying to impoverish us all.

    31. Know what thus struggling Trump-conomy needs?  Just a little grit in the oil so the economic engine seizes up.

      Seriously–we’d want to stop local transport of goods in one of biggest states when we’re already experiencing inflation and reduced exports over Trump’s poorly conceived tariffs.

      Over the last week Republican have been echoing the same talking point that it’s unfair to blame the President because at the end of the day there’s only so much he can do.  The reality is either he doesn’t underdtand what’s driving the economy or he’s actively been trying to tank it–between government layoffs, freezing government funded research, tariffs killing exports, letting ACA subsidies lapse making health care cost more than double for millions of householdd, and now proposing invalidating the commercial driver’s licences of everyone in one of the biggest states, the Trump administration has gone out of its way to shock the economy into recession.

      Republicans are trying to impoverish us all.

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