Trump administration pulls another $175m from California’s high-speed rail | Trump administration
The Trump administration cancels another $ 175 million fund for California’s high -speed railway and points to another setback for the state’s multilave project.
The US Department of Transport said on Tuesday that he had withdrawn $ 175 million financing to build a high -speed train station in Madera, class separation, excessive and design work. The movement has been watching $ 4 billion in federal grants for its ambitious but long -time excessive plans of the state in early this summer.
In July, California challenged the withdrawal of financing and called the decision illegal.
Financing deductions are another obstacle for 16 years of effort to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco with a three -hour train journey, which will provide the fastest passenger railway service in the USA.
The first $ 10 billion bond problem was built in 2008 by California voters, the railway system built more than 50 large railway buildings, including bridges, overpasses, sub -processes and viaducts, and 70 miles (113km) was completed.
The project has also increased numerous delays and gradually, now no part of the operational railway and still had no completion date.
The San Francisco-Los Angeles route had to be finished at a cost of $ 33 billion by 2020; The predicted cost has increased from $ 89 billion to 128 billion dollars since then, a portion of the line in Central Valley, which is expected until only 2033. On Monday, state deputies proposed the project. will want An annual investment of $ 1 billion to continue in the light of federal financing deductions.
The movement also points to the latest conflict between Donald Trump and California’s governor Gavin Newsom – is common for his party’s 2028 White House nomination. Since Trump took part in issues ranging from transportation to migration and transsexual rights, two leaders have repeatedly clashed. In the early hours of Tuesday, the Transportation department said that he did not apply Federal rules that require California’s truck drivers to speak English.
California high -speed railway authority did not comment immediately, but in July, Newsom said that the end of the grants was “President Trump’s personal anish for California and the facts on the ground, but a small, political ordeal motivated by the high -speed railway project”.
In the first period of 2019, a previous move for Trump to cancel $ 929 million in federal grants led to an agreement that restored the entire amount under Joe Biden in June 2021.
