This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal. NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive br

This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal. NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch. Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes the ID value of your state DL in every imaginable way No NYS applicant is asking the federal government to rely on a drivers license. The government has just chosen to tie other things to the drivers license to further their own private tantrums