California High-Speed Rail awarded $3B by Biden Administration; largest grant in its history

KTLA ^ | December 5, 2023 | Travis Schlepp

[artichokegrower]

The California High-Speed Rail has received its biggest boost from the federal government yet, being awarded more than $3 billion in grant funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

The announcement was made Tuesday and was confirmed by California Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

[artichokegrower]

We Californians wish to thank you out of state suckers I mean fellow citizens for funding this boondoggle I mean cutting edge transportation project

[JoSixChip]

Whats that, like $110B now for a $2.4B train?

[babble-on]

that’ll be good for a couple of miles

[Cobra64]

Yup. Total waste of money. Should have gone to finishing the Wall.

[quantim]

Now worries, our filthy congress piles that on our debt each and every day, and that’s only one $trillion.

[MeganC]

$3bn for the world’s most expensive bike trail.

[AlaskaErik]

Another $3 billion wasted and added to the national debt.

[EasySt]

Implacable Graft meets compliant Congress.

[Jane Long]

All aboard the Briben Grift Train.

[TLI]

It will keep the paychecks rolling in until two years from now cali will say they need more money.

That’s a lotta dough for a no-show project.

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[blackdog]

Again? 10% is what? $300 Million?

[Yo-Yo]

[Newbomb Turk]

OK Fellow Freepers, here is my question. Under what authority does the President have to give away any of the taxpayers money ?

Has a bill been passed in Congress ? Who actually authorizes the finances of the country ?

[Nextrush]

The money must be laundered so why not this rail scheme surprised they didn’t decide to build it in Ukraine.

[VTenigma]

I’m sure there are performance guarantees built into the grant funding, NOT!

[PfromHoGro]

I call the big one “Bitey”.

Mono!

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Yup. Money down a rat-hole. With a substantial % fed back to Democrat party “campaign” funding.

[ealgeone]

Dims must have not have gotten a train for Christmas.

[whitney69]

This amount is peanuts in comparison to what it is actually going to cost. The estimated median at this point is $21.8B and the working time to 2030. So giving the state $9B isn’t even close to the shortfall. And they are now talking about extending the rail into Bakersfield and Merced with additional bus services from Bakerfield to southern LA and it ends in what is currently an orchard up north.

https://hsr.ca.gov/about/capital-costs-funding/

wy69

[JoSixChip]

Under what authority does the President have to give away any of the taxpayers money ?

The republicans voted to give biden a $1.7T slush fund in the inflation reduction Act (build back better spending bill).