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Trump Administration Pulls $1B For California High-Speed Rail Project
SF CBS ^
| May 15, 2019
| ap
Posted on 05/16/2019 2:11:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
SACRAMENTO (AP) — The Trump administration cancelled nearly $1 billion in federal money for California’s high-speed rail project Thursday, further throwing into question the future of the ambitious plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The Federal Railroad Administration’s announcement it would not give California the money came several months after sniping between President Donald Trump and Gov. Gavin Newsom over the project. The administration will still try to force California to return another $2.5 billion that has already been spent.
Trump had seized on Newsom’s remarks in February that the project as planned would cost too much and take too long. Newsom has shifted the project’s immediate focus to a 171-mile line in the state’s Central Valley, but he said he’s still committed to building the full line.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; cahsr; california; fakenews; gavinnewsom; highspeedrail; newsom; trump; williegreen; winning
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To: Jim Robinson
To: Jim Robinson
That was not going anywhere, it is just a money-sink.
To: Jim Robinson
Beautiful move. Transfer it to The Wall Fund.
To: Jim Robinson
Spend it on the wall!
MAGA!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:15:47 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
To: Jim Robinson
Safe bet the standard gaggle if clowns still got their share of the lucre.
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:16:43 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Jim Robinson
the ambitious plan to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Uh NO, you mean Fresno to Bakersfield don’t you!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:18:22 PM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: Jim Robinson
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:19:42 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: eyeamok
Bordon to Corcoran. And no one wants to go to either place.
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:20:17 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: Jim Robinson
Trump had seized on Newsom’s remarks in February that the project as planned would cost too much and take too long. Newsom has shifted the project’s immediate focus to a 171-mile line in the state’s Central Valley, but he said he’s still committed to building the full line.It sounds like Gov. Newsom is having a hard time making up his mind. No money for half-steppers! lol
MAGA!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:21:59 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: eyeamok
Who would ride Fresno to Bakersfield?
I mean besides Dwight Yoakam and Merle Haggard.
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:22:18 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:22:46 PM PDT
by
proust
(Justice delayed is injustice.)
To: Jim Robinson
Just 100% perfect!
What are we going to do without President Trump after Jan 2025?
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:24:49 PM PDT
by
TrumpisRight
(It is --> President Trump <--)
To: gubamyster
Give to veterans, housing, health care, education, assistant to help them.
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:25:06 PM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Jim Robinson
Let them tax their beloved illegals they care so much about..............
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:25:55 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: Jim Robinson
Build the wall with it!!!!!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:26:16 PM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
To: Jim Robinson
The whole rail line thing (high-speed or slow as snails) was only intended to spread urban crime and homelessness to the suburban and rural areas...
This has been the principle goal, and totally successful result, of every subway, streetcar, or other type of rapid transit plan over the past 60 years!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:32:22 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
To: Jim Robinson
Put it towards the WALL!!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:32:45 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Jim Robinson
YAY! More winning!
a worse, bigger, almost-useless rip-off boondoggle couldn’t be found!
but if and when one is, it will be in the once-Great State of Californication!
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:34:11 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: SuperLuminal
No; they use cars, actually. Usually stolen, too.
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posted on
05/16/2019 2:36:18 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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