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Sean Duffy: “These are great paying jobs. They're anywhere from 80 to…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy announces 'Freedom Haulers' program to go after illegal migrant truck drivers

Published | Video Starts at 08:43

And since you signed that executive order, we all have been working overtime to make sure we take illegals off American roads and we give those jobs to great Americans, including great American veterans. So that's right. These are great paying jobs. They're anywhere from 80 to 100,000 plus dollars a year. And it's important because you have men and women who drove big rigs in the military who would then get out and have to go through months long training for their skills and their knowledge test to drive this vehicle over here. (08:43–08:50)

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Asserts that trucking jobs pay between $80,000 to over $100,000 annually.

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