Trump rescinds $4bn in US funding for California high-speed rail project | Trump administration
Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the transport department canceled the US government’s $ 4 billion fund for California’s high -speed railway project.
The department said that California is not a suitable way for the high -speed railway project and that he is considering potentially withdrawing the additional funding for the project.
Last month, the Federal Railway Administration issued a 315 -page report, referring to the missed deadline, budget deficiencies and suspicious riding projections.
An important problem is that California has not defined $ 7 billion in the additional funds required to form the first 171 mile segment between Merced and Bakersfield and California.
California high -speed railway system is a two -phase 800 miles (1,287km) system (1,287km), which is planned to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles/Anaeim, and extends the south to the north and San Diego in the second stage.
California High Speed Railway Authority, previously “misunderstanding and not to reflect the important progress made to provide a high -speed railway in California” did not strongly participate in the results of the management, he said.
The legislature said that the budget proposal of Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, provided at least $ 1 billion a year for the next 20 years to “provide the necessary resources to complete the first operational segment of the project.
In May, he said there was an active civil construction for 119 miles in the province central valley.
“The high -speed railway of Newsom and California, Bondoggle, is the definition of lack of government and possibly corruption.”
Newsom replied on social media: “He will not receive advice from the man who cannot hold the planes in the sky.”
Voters approved $ 10 billion for the project in 2008, but costs increased sharply. Former President Joe Biden, the transportation department gave the project about 4 billion dollars.
The entire San Francisco-Los Angeles project was initially completed by 2020 to $ 33 billion, but now it rose from $ 89 billion to 128 billion dollars.
In 2021, Biden provided a grant of $ 929 million, which Trump canceled the project after the California named “Disaster” in 2019 for the high -speed railway for the high -speed railway.
