More screwing with funds for states under pretext.

Sean Duffy: "We have 40,000 deaths a year on American roads. We want to make it safer, Gavin Newsom is making it more dangerous. So what we're going to do is we pulled money from him -- almost $160m in one tranche, $40m in a different pot -- but if they don't come into compliance, we will eventually pull their ability to issue commercial driver's licenses to anybody in California."

SNIP California did not immediately cancel over 17,000 commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) by the Jan. 5, 2026, deadline because
the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) extended the deadline by 60 days to verify the licenses, facing a lawsuit from immigrant rights groups seeking to prevent widespread, immediate, and potentially wrongful job losses. While the federal government threatened, and later enacted, a $160 million funding penalty for non-compliance, California sought to ensure that drivers with valid work authorization were not improperly stripped of their ability to work. SNIP