Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy pulled $175 million from California's high-speed rail project on Tuesday, just a month after canceling $4 billion in federal grants.
Duffy cited four projects related to the broader California high-speed rail initiative that would lose funding, including track extensions, grade separations, design work and the construction of a rail station in Madera. Duffy said the full project has thus far incurred $15 billion in costs, calling it a "boondoggle."
"In twenty years, California has not been able to lay a single track of high-speed rail," Duffy said in a statement . "The waste ends here. As of today, the American people are done investing in California's failed experiment. Instead, my Department will focus on making travel great again by investing