President Donald Trump introduced on Tuesday that he’ll launch a complete investigation into California’s beleaguered Excessive-Pace Rail mission.
Trump lambasted the mission as “the worst managed mission I’ve ever seen,” hinting at what many conservatives have identified all alongside: this boondoggle is nothing however a colossal waste of taxpayer cash.
Trump stated from the Oval Workplace on Tuesday:
“One of many issues I wish to examine quickly—as a result of I’ve by no means seen something to this extent—is the practice that’s being constructed between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
It’s the worst-managed mission I believe I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a number of the worst. Billions and billions—a whole bunch of billions—of {dollars} over price range.
In actual fact, I learn that you possibly can take each single one who was going to go on the practice, present the best limousine service on the earth to take them backwards and forwards, and also you’d nonetheless have a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} left over.
It’s the worst factor, and we’re going to start out an investigation of that as a result of it’s not attainable. I constructed for a dwelling, and I constructed on time and on price range. It’s unattainable that one thing might price that a lot.
Now it’s not even going to San Francisco, and it’s not going to Los Angeles. They’ve made it a lot shorter. Now it’s at little locations distant from San Francisco and much away from Los Angeles.
We’re going to start out an enormous investigation on that as a result of I’ve by no means seen something prefer it. No one has ever seen something prefer it. The worst overruns there have ever been within the historical past of our nation.”
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President Trump introduced an investigation into California’s high-speed rail mission, which seems to some as an enormous cash laundering scheme.
“I constructed for a dwelling, and I constructed on time, on price range. It’s unattainable that one thing might price that a lot.”
Californians ought to be… pic.twitter.com/o64vUR2aTQ
— George (@BehizyTweets) February 4, 2025
The California Excessive-Pace Rail Authority (CHSRA) has tried to defend the mission’s progress in a publish on X, citing the completion of fifty main buildings, 60 miles of guideway, and the creation of 14,600 jobs.
Ignore the noise. We’re busy constructing.
As we enter the track-laying part, 171 miles are beneath lively development & we’ve already:
✅ COMPLETED 50 main buildings
✅ COMPLETED 60 miles of guideway
✅ COMPLETED full enviro clearance from SF to LA
✅ CREATED 14,600 jobs pic.twitter.com/esbk0Gespb— CA Excessive-Pace Rail (@CaHSRA) February 4, 2025
Initially greenlit by the voters with the promise of linking Los Angeles to San Francisco in a contemporary, environment friendly bullet practice system for a mere $33 billion with a completion date set for 4 years in the past, the mission has ballooned to an astonishing $128 to $130 billion, with no clear completion date in sight, in line with abc30.
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