By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-22 14:52:21 | Updated at 2024-12-22 21:02:28
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California Democrats Ask Buttigieg for Half a Billion Dollars for High-Speed Rail Before Trump Takes Office
Breitbart ^ | 12/22/2024 | Joel B Pollack
Posted on 12/22/2024 6:45:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
California Democrats have written to outgoing Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to ask for more than half a billion dollars in funding for an ailing high-speed rail project that President-elect Donald Trump defunded in 2019.
As Breitbart News reported, Trump withheld $1 billion in funding from the project after Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) canceled the original project. Newsom had explained to the state legislature that the original plan for a Los Angeles-to-San Francisco “bullet” train “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long.” Trump then demanded the state refund the money federal taxpayers had given it — applying the same rules that hold in the private sector.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidencrimewave; billion; buttigieg; california; democrats; highspeed; office; rail; spendaholicsunite; trump
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Better just a flush the money down the toilet. 🙄
To: ChicagoConservative27
They need that $$ to fund the high salaries of the do-nothing “executives” of this project - before DOGE rightfully pulls the plug on federal funds for this turkey.
17 years. Supposed to have been completed in 2020. Not a single train running. 1600 feet of track completed.
2 posted on 12/22/2024 6:48:35 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Just keep the right-of-ways open. There might come a time when it’s a good idea.
3 posted on 12/22/2024 6:49:16 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
To: ChicagoConservative27
Indeed it’s a scam money maker for the state that will never end.
Well dang we need a few more billion to keep it running.
4 posted on 12/22/2024 6:50:07 AM PST by Vaduz
To: ChicagoConservative27
Funny, I think the Trump Administration is going to investigate the “train to nowhere” and put California politicians in jail for fraud and embezzlement. If Trump really wants to break the California political machine that is where all the bodies are buried. Every California politician has been “whetting their beak” in that fraud.
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