President Donald Trump can withdraw $4.3 billion in federal funding for California's high-speed rail project, just like he frozen 1 billion for the permanently delayed and cheating project in his first term as president Dollar. [emphasis, links added]
The high-speed rail project was originally approved by California voters in a 2008 referendum and was advocated by Gov. Jerry Brown (D), who took office after 2010, a way to promote the economy and work with climate change The way to struggle.
As Brett Bart News then reported, Trump stopped nearly $1 billion after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) canceled the original plan for the bullet trains linked to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Go to California to participate in the program.
Newsom told the Legislature at the time that the project “will take too much and respect it will take too long.”
But he wants Despite insufficient demand, construction continues between towns in the Central Valley.
Newsom is angry when Trump backs off $1 billion – The president also tried to recover the billions of dollars wasted on the project.
Trump believes federal taxpayers have invested in a high-speed rail that will connect two of California's largest cities. If the project is stopped, federal taxpayers will owe the money.
Newsom seems to think that California should be able to claim funds regardless of the success of the project.
President Joe Biden restored the funding in 2021 and added federal funding to a separate private high-speed rail project that aims to connect the Los Angeles area to Las Vegas (has a higher likelihood of business success).
However, when he took office, President Trump again raised doubts about California's original high-speed rail project and vowed to investigate it, including whether there is corruption in public spending.
Now, Fresno Bee Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Efficiency (DOGE) may be in trouble in their sight, reported Tuesday:
[W]HILE's first $2.5 billion federal grant granted by the Obama administration in 2009 under the U.S. Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been fully spent – in line with an equal amount of national currencies – nearly $4.3 billion remained as of November 2024 Not assumed. Awarded by the Biden administration under the Department of Transportation. It is conceivable that unsubsidized federal funds could be cancelled by the hostile Trump administration.
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The authorities aim to build a 171-mile route and between downtown Bakersfield and between 2030 and 2033, with train operations and passengers.
Musk once had plans to travel highways in California: the so-called Hyperloop, which would be linked to San Francisco and Los Angeles underground or along existing rights of way, corresponding to Interstate 5.
This idea never goes beyond the conceptual stage.
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