President Donald Trump is seeking an audit that could kill California's high-speed rail proposal.
Many union workers who rely on federal lifelines competed at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday to throw Tomato and Heckle's Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, and his division was exploited by how funds were exploited. Lead the responsibility to know if there is.
“It's been 17 years and $16 billion and no railroads have been built,” Duffy said while protesters responded to his comments while in the room.
Sean Duffy arrives at a meeting with Nebraska Sen. Deb Fisher on December 10, 2024, about his appointment to lead the Department of Transport. (Aldrago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“So, if you want to protest somewhere, or shout at someone, go to the governor's mansion. Talk to the Congressional Democrats who brought this shitty project,” he added.
Specifically, the secretary wants to investigate whether so far there have been shaded business transactions linked to the failure of the railway project. As of January, the state was promoting small developments in the Bakersfield section of the project.
“American states are nowhere nearer to launching faster rails than California. Today we took a major step. We moved to the track ray stage and completed the structure of the important segments. Let us lay the foundations. High-speed rail network, “Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement last month.
“The future of transportation is now happening here in Central Valley, with thousands of paying jobs already created and 171 miles are working on.
Federal taxpayers spent nearly $3 billion on the project. Another $4 billion had been promised by President Joe Biden, but it had not yet been spent. An audit can provide Trump with legal authority to retrieve that money.
Still, the Associated Press shows little is shown in the project, which is projected to cost $106 billion to achieve its ultimate goal of extending from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Supporters argue that the railroad is more connected to California, one of the nation's largest states.
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Continuing construction of the California Bullet Train Project is photographed to the left of Colcoran, California and to the right of Hanford, California. (Getty Images)
Rep. Kevin Kiley of R-Calif is pleased that the project is attracting federal attention.
“We've been battling this tragic project for many years, and now we have the opportunity to finally finish it, thanks to Secretary Duffy and President Trump,” he told Fox News Digital.
“I don't know why anyone supports what's going on in California. We're really wasting taxpayer money on a grand scale and we don't get anything in exchange for it. ” he added.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom and US Rep. Kevin Killie (Getty Images)
Additionally, R-Calif Rep. Young Kim further argued that the project's accountability was “time.”
“We'll see if this investigation leads to finding fraud and waste. If there's a scam, it's probably in the area of contractors, subcontractors, designers, builders, and whether anyone is involved. The high-speed rail project is somehow involved in this process,” she said.
