Trump Admin puts ‘disastrous’ high -speed rail project in Blue State on notice

President Donald Trump calls for a revision that could kill California’s high -speed course proposal that has been around for almost two decades and has made very little progress.

Many union workers who depend on the federal lifeline appeared on Thursday for the Union Station in Los Angeles to throw tomatoes and Heckle Transport Secretary Sean Duffy as his department will lead the charge of finding out how the funds are used.

“It’s been $ 17 and $ 16 billion, and no rail has been built,” Duffy said while the protesters were in space and responding to his comments.

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Sean Duffy arrives at a meeting with Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer about his nomination to lead the Department of Transport, December 10, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“So if you want to protest somewhere, if you want to shout at someone, go to the governor’s mansion – go and talk to Democrats in the legislature who brought us this crazy project,” he added.

Specifically, the Secretary wants to investigate whether there were any shadowy business relationships tied with the failure of the rail project so far. From January, the state appointed a small development in the project’s Bakersfield section.

“No state in America is closer to launching high-speed rail than California-and today we just took a massive step forward. We are moving into the phase phase, implementing structures for key segments and laid the basis for a high-speed railway network,” Gift Gift Gift Gift said in a statement Last month.

“The future of transport is realized right here in Central Valley with thousands of good paid jobs already created and 171 miles worked on. As only California can, we build America’s biggest infrastructure project,” he added.

Federal taxpayers spent nearly $ 3 billion on the project – with another $ 4 billion promised, but not already used, from President Joe Biden. The audit could give Trump the legal authority to itch that money back.

There is still almost nothing to show to the project that is expected to cost $ 106 billion to reach its final goal of extending from Los Angeles to San Francisco, according to Associated Press. Supporters have claimed that the railway would make California, one of the country’s largest states, more connected.

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The ongoing construction of the California Bullet Train project is photographed in Corcoran, California, Left, and Hanford, California, right. (Getty Images)

Congress member Kevin Kiley, R-California, is pleased to see the project get federal attention.

“We have been fighting this catastrophic project for years, and now thanks to secretary Duffy and President Trump we finally have an opportunity to hopefully bring it to an end,” he told Fox News Digital.

“I’m not sure why someone would be for what’s going on in California. We waste taxpayers’ money in a real, just on an epic scale and don’t get anything in return for it,” he added.

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and US representative Kevin Kiley (Getty Images)

In addition, Congress Woman Young Kim, R-California, argued, “It’s Time” for accountability for the project.

“We’ll see if this investigation leads to finding any fraud and waste. If there is fraud, I know it would probably be in the areas whether the contractors, subcontractors, the designer, the builders, anyone involved in the high -speed rail project, are somehow involved in this process,” she said.