Posted on 06/11/2021 1:31:46 PM PDT by SES1066
The Biden administration late on Thursday restored a $929 million grant for California’s high-speed rail that then-President Donald Trump revoked in 2019. =====
Trump had pulled funding for a high-speed train project in the state hobbled by extensive delays and rising costs that he dubbed a “disaster.” Trump repeatedly clashed as president with California on a number of policy fronts, prompting the state to file more than 100 lawsuits against the Republican Trump administration.
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I can’t think of a more stupid way to throw away money. This project has been an absolute DISASTER and needs to be defunded immediately. It was a pet project of idiot governor Gerry Brown: “I like trains”
Who would EVER take a train (it won’t be high speed) - to get from one end of the state to the other?
Southwest does a great job of that, cheaply and quickly.
Biden’s handlers are acting like a bunch of spoiled children. “Orange Man Bad” is the last thing they think about at night and the first thing they think about in the morning.
They obsess over anything that denigrates President Trump.
I’m sure the thought of assassination has crossed their twisted minds more than once.
Wow, rat holes must be really big in California. Imagine trying to throw all that cash down one? Of course, rats live in your typical rat hole. Maybe Newsom will be crouched down there with a butterfly net? He is wise to seek a low profile, now that the recall is coming.
Too bad Democrat donors aren’t builders of desalination plants...
live in California .the money is being stolen by the family members of the politicians in California ...This project is dead and all that is going to happen is the money will go to the lawyers involved.
No surprise, it’s the point of the coup.
This boondoggle again.
The first leg to be completed - from Modesto to Corcoran will allow illegals to easily get from field to field and visit their loved ones in the prison in Corcoran.
Demented, corrupt, a pedophile, senile, and an absolute fool. We are so screwed.
Only a small fraction will make it into aforementioned project. Most of it will disappear into retirement accounts.
Biden reopens the corruption money spigot. Taxpayers and working people hardest hit.
You don’t hear DiFi’s hubby complaining.
Wasted in California
The Sequel
10% back to ‘The Big Guy’.
I can’t believe this is back on the table. What a waste of money. The Biden Administration is destroying every good thing Trump accomplished. It’s remarkable how tenuous our stability was. Four years of MAGA progress is now in the trash heap. Can you imagine what our country will look like by 2024?
........that money would be better spent if were burned a handful at a time for heat in NYC tenements this coming Winter.
That's the main problem right there. It is of no use to the majority of Californians. Not only that, the "high-speed" rail trains will impede transit corridors in the SF Bay Area and LA regions because they share the same right-of-way as regular commuter and freight trains.
In SF, the money already earmarked for the high-speed train station was diverted to build a park atop the Transbay terminal building (which had budget shortfalls); the train station is currently a big hole in the ground and will require many billions of dollars to create. This whole project is a disaster that will never be completed and will continue to suck money from taxpayers for decades.
The left believes in the law of economic ruin.
That $929M will build one more mile of this atrocity.
money laundering at its finest
what’s he care. It’s not his money
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