'Train to nowhere': Federal funding cut from high-speed rail

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The High-Speed Rail, which aimed to link the Central Valley with the northbound and southbound coasts, has deed a important setback aft President Donald Trump announced helium has "officially freed [taxpayers] from backing California's disastrously overpriced 'HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE.'"

The Wednesday Truth Social station follows the Department of Transportation's (DOT) greeting notification that astir $4 cardinal successful unspent national backing for California’s High Speed Rail has been terminated by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

The determination is the culmination of a months-long compliance review, which recovered the task successful default of the presumption of its national assistance awards. The June 4, 310-page report cited missed deadlines, fund shortfalls, and overrepresentation of projected ridership.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority disputed the findings and defended the project's advancement with an archetypal effect connected June 11 and a last effect connected July 7. However, connected Wednesday, the DOT said neither addressed the FRA's concerns. 

A superior interest for Trump: cost.

"To the Law abiding, Tax paying, Hardworking Citizens of the United States of America, I am
thrilled to denote that I person officially freed you from backing California's disastrously overpriced, "HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE." This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has outgo Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we person received NOTHING successful instrumentality but Cost Overruns," his station work successful part.

However, according to DOT, the estimated $135 cardinal task has truthful acold spent astir $15 billion, not 'hundreds of billions of dollars.' The $4 cardinal termination brings full national backing for the task to $2.8 billion, down from the antecedently agreed-upon $6.8 cardinal successful national funding.

While U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy has directed FRA to reappraisal different grants related to the project, and says the DOT volition consult with the DOJ connected the findings of FRA’s Compliance Review, "including perchance clawing backmost backing related to California’s bid to nowhere," the termination missive made nary factual decisions astir aboriginal national funding; nonetheless, President Trump claims a imperishable precedent has been set.

"The Railroad we were promised inactive does not exist, and ne'er will. This task was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED. Thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, not a SINGLE penny successful Federal Dollars volition spell towards this Newscum SCAM ever again. This was an ill-conceived and unnecessary project, and a full discarded of Taxpayer wealth - But nary more!" Trump wrote.