Trump administration pulls $4 billion from California high-speed rail project
A rendering shows a high -speed railway train planned when entering a station. On May 1, 2024, Render was exhibited by the high -speed railway authority in California, Fresno, Fresno, during an informative open house.
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Transportation secretary Sean Duffy officially terminated the federal funds for California High Speed Railway Authority weeks after putting Chsra’s bullet train project for notification.
One termination letter Drew Feeley, the Deputy of the Federal Railway Administration of Wednesday, the CEO of the authority, wrote that he violated his commitments in his original agreements, in particular the goals he prepared to reach.
“After more than a decade, Chsra’s wrong management and inadequacy proved that he could not build his train on time or with a budget,” Duffy proved. He said. expression. “This is the time of Boondoggle to die.”
Railway Authority did not respond immediately to the request for comments. In a social media post, California Gov. Gavin Newsom in question The state will “investigate all options to combat this illegal action”.
President Donald Trump praised the management of his work on termination of the project. Real Social Post On Wednesday night, he calls Newsom “incompetent.”
“The railway we promise still exists and will never happen.” “This project is seriously expensive, over -arranged and never delivered.”
High -speed railway efforts started in 2009. Train This can travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco under three hours. Reporter cut Ten years later, this vision sets out to connect only a 170 -mile land between Merced and Bakersfield.
According to the Federal Railway Administration, it was estimated that it would cost approximately 22 billion dollars with a 2033 end date, which was envisaged to exist.
A June Report The project, which was produced by the Trump administration, was claimed to be “no suitable way” to be completed and violated federal contracts, including delayed deadline and financing gaps.
The railway system told CNBC that most of the funds of the project were provided by the state, not by the federal government.
