The state of California has spent a whopping $7 billion on a high-speed railway project that was greenlit in 2008. Today — a decade and a half later — not one single track has been laid. Now the Department of Transportation has put California on notice, threatening to pull the plug on $4 billion in federal funding for the project if the state doesn’t address missed deadlines, budget shortfalls, and unrealistic ridership projections by mid-July.

On Wednesday, Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted the following to X:

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“How did the state keep this charade up for 15 years?” asks “Blaze News: The Mandate’s” Jill Savage.

Blaze Media editor in chief and former California resident Matthew Peterson says this isn’t surprising in the least. “California is exactly like the

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