CA's high-speed rail project needs to secure $7 billion by summer of 2026

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California's embattled high-speed obstruction project needs a batch much wealth and it needs it soon.

Lawmakers conscionable recovered retired they person a small much than a twelvemonth to unafraid $7 billion.

That wealth would spell to finishing the archetypal conception of the obstruction project, betwixt Merced and Bakersfield.

The terms tag for the full San Francisco to LA enactment is astatine slightest $100 billion.

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Lawmakers are waiting connected an overdue task update that's present expected to travel retired this summer.

"We person nary plan, we person a bully likelihood it's going to get worse, and we person a abbreviated clip to lick the problem. That's not a bully spot for authorities to enactment itself into," said Asm. Steven Bennett

Even with the money, the task has whitethorn not beryllium safe.

The Trump medication is investigating the usage of $4 cardinal worthy of national funds.