If you’ve missed this weekday political “TV drama,” it’s juicy. California Governor Newsom pulled his National Guard troops off the border. His state is suing the Trump Administration over the National Emergency Declaration. And, they are not building that High-Speed Rail line from Los Angeles to San Fran.
“He told legislators he wanted to complete the portion of the bullet train under construction in the rural Central Valley, lest the state lose federal dollars.”
Trump came back and said, if you’re not building it, give back the 3.5 Billion.
Newsom says, no way. We’re building it, just not all the way as we planned.
Trumps says, Okay, then we’re not funding it all the way as “we” planned.
Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sent a letter to the California High-Speed Rail Authority, informing it that it was terminating its agreement with the state and therefore would refuse to provide the state with $928,620,000 allocated to the high-speed rail project.
That “nearly a billion” is less than a third of the original “investment.” Is California building two-thirds of a High-Speed Rail line. Nope.
So, the White House is pursuing all legal options to get the taxpayers money back from a project that failed to meet expectations. I think a few federal audits would also be in order. Let’s find out what they did with the other billion.
Newsom says this is political retaliation.
He says he’s talking about Trump, but if he was honest, Newsom did it first.
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