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Trump Follows Through on Threat to Cancel $1 Billion for California High-Speed Rail
by Joel B. Pollak

The Trump administration followed through Thursday on its threat earlier this year to cancel a $929 billion grant that was meant to have funded high-speed rail rail in California.

California Governor Gavin Newsom declared in his “State of the State” address that he was cutting back the proposed San Francisco-to-Los Angeles “bullet train,” telling legislators that after years of delays and cost increases, the project “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long.” He still hoped to build a segment of the rail project in the Central Valley, saying the state did not want to send $3.5 billion in federal money back to President Donald Trump.

But the president had other ideas, demanding that California repay the money immediately: ...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/16/trump-follows-through-on-threat-to-cancel-1-billion-for-california-high-speed-rail/

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