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| POTUS Demands Gavin Newsom Return $3.5 Billion for Canceled Bullet Train; Newsom: It's ‘California's Money' Now |
| 2019-02-14 |
| [Breitbart] President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday evening that the State of California return $3.5 billion in federal funds after Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled most of the state’s high-speed rail project, saying it was too expensive. "California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars," the president tweeted. "They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a "green" disaster!" Newsom devoted the opening portion of his first "State of the State" address Tuesday to attacking Trump and his policies on the border. Yet he then bowed to conservative criticism ‐ and, arguably, to fiscal reality ‐ by canceling the high-speed rail project championed by his predecessors. The governor added that while the bullet train would no longer connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, as first envisioned, the state would still continue "phase one" of the project between the rural towns of Bakersfield and Merced. "I know that some critics will say this is a ’train to nowhere,'" he said. "But that’s wrong and offensive." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #17 Feinstein 's husband has a piece of the action. What does that tell you. |
| Posted by: crazyhorse 2019-02-14 21:59 |
| #16 Agree. The Chinese manage to build a high speed train between Beijing and Hong Kong. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2019-02-14 21:40 |
| #15 High speed rail is actually a wonderful thing - I love it and it's a great way to travel here (China). So, every time I read about California's ongoing screw ups, I always wonder why all the geniuses there can't do a few hundred miles but the Chinese have done thousands and thousands of miles. High speed rail is not the problem. It's an ID10T problem in California. |
| Posted by: Beau 2019-02-14 21:01 |
| #14 Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway? Probably they got that money while Obama was still in office. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-14 18:34 |
| #13 Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway? |
| Posted by: newc 2019-02-14 14:38 |
| #12 Meanwhile, Meanwhile, private railroad Florida East Coast Railway and investment money is getting started on Brightline and construction is due to start soon on the privately-financed Dallas-Houston Texas Central railroad using Japanese technology and some foreign investments (I think). I was offered a chance to come out of retirement to work on the Texas Central, but passed. The California boondoggle had no real plan to get to population centers without massive Federal money from Barry and Hilly. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-02-14 12:23 |
| #11 Money's already been given to Brown's cronies. It pains me to think how that much money could have been used to repair Interstate 5 and other bits of crumbling California infrastructure. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-02-14 12:10 |
| #10 sell Atherton |
| Posted by: 746 2019-02-14 12:09 |
| #9 The train to nowhere and the $$$ billions that went with it. What a waste. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2019-02-14 11:48 |
| #8 Money is fungible, next time the Feds send money to California they send a paid as part of the bullet train bill note instead. I don't think California has the money to give back. Hopefully this is the start of tightening their belt and addressing the problem, even if they blame Trump every step of the way. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-02-14 11:27 |
| #7 Cut out 3.5 billion for this year's federal money for CA. Easy enough. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-02-14 11:23 |
| #6 The project may be a disaster but California has met the requirements that were part of the grant of $3.5B as long as they eventually have a usable section operating. However, in a sense the $3.5B was a good investment because it resulted in a demo of the problems with this technology. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-02-14 11:18 |
| #5 @ grom: i will volunteer for kneecap duty |
| Posted by: chris 2019-02-14 09:42 |
| #4 he said the almighty word "offensive". I believe they really think if they say something is offensive they automatically get their way. |
| Posted by: chris 2019-02-14 09:42 |
| #3 Not to worry - Trump will get that money back one way or another. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-02-14 08:24 |
| #2 Send somebody to break Newsom's kneecaps. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-14 05:11 |
| #1 But AOC sez no more airplanes, everyone are going to ride trains, Gavin! |
| Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-14 02:32 |