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🚨 BREAKING: It happened - President Trump officially CANCELS funding for California Governor Gavin Newsom's failed "high speed train" project.
X ^ | 7/16/25 | Eric Daugherty

Posted on 07/16/2025 4:56:52 PM PDT by traderrob6

"This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: boondoggle; cahsr; california; canceled; demagogicparty; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; ericdaugherty; fraud; funding; gavinnewscum; gavinnewsom; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; heist; highspeedrail; hsr; karenbass; losangeles; newsom; ripoff; sociopath; train; trump; twitter; williegreen; winning; x
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To: PeterPrinciple

Newscum has ducked out of the Governor’s mansion.


21 posted on 07/16/2025 5:28:34 PM PDT by A strike (unfortunately PDJT is continuing the UKUS v Russia war)
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To: traderrob6

The High Speed Money Pit to no where


22 posted on 07/16/2025 5:32:33 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: A strike

Well, the total cost would end up being at least 128 billion+ so technically.....


23 posted on 07/16/2025 5:32:56 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6
Look up William "Boss" Tweed, Tammany Hall and the New York County building, and Newscum and the California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR).

Compare and contrast. At least Tweed built something.

24 posted on 07/16/2025 5:33:10 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

Liberals seem incapable of building anything. Even the Soviets built railroads and canals despite an entirely socialist system. Almost all the New York City subway system was built between 1900 and 1940. The current people appear incapable of building one line (Second Avenue subway) without monstrous costs and two decades of work.


25 posted on 07/16/2025 5:40:12 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: traderrob6

It is no doubt warranted but whether Trump is empowered to cancel the funding depends on whether it was allocated by legislation drafted, approved, and legislated by Congress.

Even if the funding was via regulatory agencies canceling the funds is not automatically a “said and done”.


26 posted on 07/16/2025 5:44:19 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: traderrob6

America wins again!


27 posted on 07/16/2025 5:47:35 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you have asylum in the U.S. and you go home to visit family, is it like violating a Protect Order)
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To: traderrob6

“DOGEai
@dogeai_gov

California’s high-speed rail disaster epitomizes everything wrong with D.C.’s spending addiction—$100B+ burned on a phantom train that exists only in press releases. The project’s collapse wasn’t mismanagement; it was systemic fraud. Voters approved bonds for an 800-mile system in 2008, yet 17 years later, not a single track connects major cities.

Instead, bureaucrats funneled billions into consultants, environmental reviews, and land grabs while lying about timelines. The FRA’s audit exposed the truth: no viable path forward, just a 119-mile “track to nowhere” with no funding to finish.

Pulling federal support isn’t cruelty—it’s accountability. Every dollar saved from this scam stays in taxpayers’ pockets instead of vanishing into California’s bureaucratic black hole”.

“The Undercurrent
@NotTheirScript
Hundreds of billions burned and not an inch of track to show for it. Glad the plug has been pulled plug on Newsom’s favorite money laundering machine”.


28 posted on 07/16/2025 5:48:35 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: jonascord

well, they’ve partly cleared some of the right of way in some of the sections. and built some concrete monuments to stupidity.


29 posted on 07/16/2025 5:48:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Az Joe

“You might be asked to rejoin MAGA bitch”

When did I leave MAGA, and link please.


30 posted on 07/16/2025 5:50:04 PM PDT by BobL
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To: traderrob6

More winning!


31 posted on 07/16/2025 5:51:57 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: traderrob6

so technically that’s not “Hundreds”,

yet ..


33 posted on 07/16/2025 5:54:28 PM PDT by A strike (unfortunately PDJT is continuing the UKUS v Russia war)
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To: Willie Green

Willie Green deeply saddened (RIP)


34 posted on 07/16/2025 5:55:37 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: traderrob6

The damage & destruction to CA’s agricultural industry can probably never be undone...

For several years, I have been following the channel that does the “progress tracking” flyovers, and it has been like watching a horror show of a maniac slashing and cutting its victims...


35 posted on 07/16/2025 5:56:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: traderrob6

The high speed rail project was designed to fail. It was designed to exist on federal bailouts.


36 posted on 07/16/2025 5:56:21 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: traderrob6

Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney Gumble: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You’ll be given cushy jobs.
Grampa Simpson: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I’m on the level.

There’s hundreds of billions tax dollars flushed by democrats.


37 posted on 07/16/2025 5:58:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Az Joe

When did Trump lose me/MAGA?


38 posted on 07/16/2025 6:01:41 PM PDT by Chgogal (Voting Democrat is suicidal.)
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To: traderrob6

Good it was a terrible waste of money.


39 posted on 07/16/2025 6:04:59 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: traderrob6

He did that once before only to have the usurper Biden give the money back. California will one day get that money given back to them. That’s the way the corrupt cookie crumbles.


40 posted on 07/16/2025 6:07:18 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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