President Donald Trump’s administration said it withdrew more than $175 million in federal funding from projects related to California’s high-speed rail, in the latest move to kneecap the long-delayed plan to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco via train.
The Federal Railroad Administration moved to block four projects related to the high-speed rail, according to a Tuesday statement from the US Department of Transportation, citing waste and lack of progress in what it called a “failed experiment.” It said the cost was projected to total $135 billion, more than quadrupling from the original estimate.
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