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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Is this money coming from Biden’s savings account?
From L.A.take the bus to Bakersfield for the scenic trip through the once agriculture center of the state, now dry wastelands of the central valley.
High speed? It may not be fast enough.
$929 million won't get them one mile.
Sometimes FR and other conservative sites make me depressed. Biden is ruining the country and nothing is stopping it.
Has there been a mile of track laid yet? It’s been 20 years and a trillion dollars.
Find a snail darter or endangered mushroom on every mile of the proposed route.
I know we have republican biologists, so start using your college degree. Incidentally, under federal Qui Tam legislation, you can get paid big bucks for exposing commie democrat theft and fraud.
(Qui tam is a type of lawsuit based on an ancient writ in common law that allows a private person, known as a relator, to prosecute a lawsuit for the government and receive a reward. ... If the case is successful, the relator can earn a whistleblower reward.)
Yep. Just give me one-quarter of one percent of it and no one will ever hear from me again. And I’ll put a lot of it back into the economy, because I like to spend more than save.
Can’t help but wonder how much of this goes to China’s CCP, and it’s allies here.
The Biden Rail Express to nowhere.
> 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.
from Modesto or from Merced?
I would take it if it went downtown, but it stops in Bakersfield.
A Billion $$ for a train to and from nowhere.....that nobody will ride?!?!?
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