Posted on 02/22/2025 11:41:44 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Trump administration is launching an audit of California’s high-speed rail project, which is a decade late and is expected to run $100 billion over budget without connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, as originally intended.
As Breitbart News has reported, President Donald Trump warned that the federal government could claw back over $4 billion in spending on the project, just as he blocked $1 billion for the ailing project during his first administration.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy drew protesters in an appearance in Los Angeles to announce the audit:
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Thursday he would launch a compliance review of the $4 billion in federal funds allocated to California’s high-speed rail project — the ambitious, long-delayed plan to send bullet trains from Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco.
The review would “help determine” whether the money should “remain committed” to the railway’s first segment between Merced and Bakersfield in the Central Valley, spokespeople for the U.S. Department of Transportation said in a news release, casting the future of the project in jeopardy.
“If California wants to continue to invest, that’s fine, but we in the Trump administration are going to take a look at whether this project is worthy of continual investment,” Duffy said Thursday morning, addressing reporters at Union Station in Los Angeles. Protesters gathered in the background to boo and loudly chant, “Build the rail!”
The protesters are not known to represent any real constituency; the high-speed rail project is unpopular even in California, outside of some areas of the Central Valley.
A separate high-speed rail project, running between the L.A. area and Las Vegas, is viewed more positively because it began with private funding and has a prospect of success...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
DOGE please cancel it. cut it. now.
didn’t he do that in his first admin ? what’s different ?
https://apnews.com/article/7a9b03eed47a44c986a1a2f06d0a6c4e
Have you not seen the differences between Trump 2017 and Trump 2025?
Answer: this time the deep state can’t stop him.
The project was designed as a money laundry to recycle taxpayers bucks to Newsom’s big donors and the usual Dem interest groups. As such it’s been a roaring success.
The Springfield Monorail!
But they can’t keep water in the Pacific Palisades reservoir.
We can't stop Gavin Newsom in California but we can force him to return four billion dollars.
Not to mention that there are far more Chinese people.
JK! LOL! Relax. It was just a joke.
Well, yeah - Las Vegas is an understood destination - who wants to go to San Francisco?
sure...If it was wrong\bad back then, what is to research\audit now (unless you want to go after the people who pocketed the money) ? just do it.
Hope those travelling from CA have return tickets so at least they can get home if lady luck has been unkind!
Audit Hawaii’s too! Hey Tulsi! Please fix Hawaii!!!
This is going to be so much fun!
Don’t see where the Constitution delegates the President authority to audit a state program.
California High-Speed Rail is CA issue.
And OBTW Mr. Trump, don’t use federal funds as a whip to do what is otherwise unconstitutional. STOP federal funds of CA and the states because such funding is not delegated to the feds by the Constitution.
After decade of construction and billions spend:
No tracks were laid so far!
Out of this project. all 22 miles are substantially completed, ready for tracks!
Even the “nowhere to nowhere” project (Merced to Bakersfield) is not fully funded, in about quarter of the distance the work have not even started yet.
The mile of the rail is predicted now to cost 200 Millions
You read my mind. It will soon become a high-speed vagrant shelter because that's who's going to move in and California LEOs will not do a thing to stop them.
California High-Speed Rail is CA issue.
It was until Joe Biden decided to give them federal funds.
Gavin Newsom is giving his friends our tax dollars.
"It's for the train".
Willie Green memorial ping
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