President Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that about $4 billion in unspent federal funding for California’s significantly delayed and overbudget high-speed rail project has been terminated.
“To the Law abiding, Tax paying, Hardworking Citizens of the United States of America, I am thrilled to announce that I have officially freed you from funding California’s disastrously overpriced, ‘HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“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,” the president fumed, using his preferred nickname for Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom. “The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will.”
Trump described the project as a “boondoggle” and blamed Gavin Newsom for its failure. Getty Images
Originally passed as a ballot initiative in 2008, the 800-mile rail