President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have called the project, first approved by California voters in 2008, a “train to nowhere.”
July 16, 2025, 7:46 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press
By The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of building a bullet train to shuttle riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The U.S. Transportation Department announced it was pulling back $4 billion in funding for the project, weeks after signaling it would do so. Overall, a little less than a quarter of the project’s funding has come from the federal government. The rest has come from the state, mainly through a voter-approved bond and money from its cap-and-trade program.
President Donald Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy both have slammed the project as a “train to nowhere.”
“The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This project was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump pulls $4 billion in funding for California bullet train project CA.gov
See also Governor Newson’s statement on Trump’s failure… https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/governor-newsom-responds-to-trumps-latest-gift-to-china-defunding-americas-only-high-speed-rail/
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