The Trump administration attracts more federal funding from the high -speed railway project in California.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Transport announced that it had withdrawn nearly $ 175 million formerly by President Joe Biden to the high -speed railway in California.
Federal funds are allocated to many projects along the high -speed railway, including separating multiple degrees to separate vehicles and train movement where it intersects, in addition to one of the planned stations for the project in Madeira.
In the stalled comments issued by the Ministry of Transport, Minister Sean Duffy referred to the project as “Boondogge” and a waste of approximately $ 14 billion that have already been spent on design and early construction elements.
Joe Biden and [former DOT Secretary] “Beit Batjejj’s Beit did not care about these failures and threw hundreds of millions of dollars in the state’s wishes list for relevant imagination projects,” Dofi said in a statement. As of today, the American people have been completed to invest in the failed California experience. “
Duffy continued to say that the expected price of about $ 135 billion will allow every resident in San Francisco and Los Angeles to buy nearly 200 individual sects between cities. Although CAHSR officials and project advocates have noticed that a high -speed railway system will not be used exclusively by the residents of these two cities, and it is not specifically designed with the status of these two cities only.
Instead of continuing to provide federal funds for California, Dofi said his ministry “will focus on making travel wonderfully again by investing in well -managed projects”, although he did not specify what these projects might have. The Trump administration has already expressed support for BRIGHTLINE WEST, a special endeavor to link Southern California with Las Vegas, who received billions of dollars in federal funds.
The decision to back down from this last round of funding comes after weeks California filed a lawsuit Against the Trump administration after the president announced that he canceled nearly $ 4 billion in federal scholarships.
The lawsuit accuses the federal government of ending funding in the act of “simple political revenge, motivated by President Trump’s animation towards California and the high -speed railway project, not by facts on the ground.”
A California Railways spokesman for KTLA made a statement on Tuesday, echoing many of the predecessors of the lawsuit previously filed.
“This is a continuation of the Trump administration’s unlawful societies, with political motivations, and the baseless attack on high -speed rail societies in California and the Central Valley societies.” “The facts are clear: California connects the only real high -speed system under construction in North America.”
The same official said that the authority is about to buy the track components and the system components that will be installed along the high -speed railway corridor in the central valley during the next year.
The statement concluded that “while opponents recycle tiring political attacks, California adopts the future of American transport.”
Ian Chaudhry, CEO of California HD Railways, is currently defending the project’s financing, with up to $ 1 billion to build high -speed railways every year through the maximum revenue of the state.
This consistent and reliable government funding, instead of the current volatile financing model, will allow the authority to search for funding for the project, accelerate the construction and find new revenue flows.
California Governor Gavin New Roosom supported this plan and urged the California Legislative Authority to support it.
The current construction is on the high -speed railway in California along the 119 miles of the track that includes the largest part of the initial operating sector, which is part of the path in the central valley, which is expected to be completed in the early thirties.