The Trump administration wants to cut off $929 million in federal funding grants to California’s ambitious high-speed rail project and, at the same time, is “actively exploring” every legal option to take back an additional $2.5 billion in federal grant funds that had already been given to the state.
The announcement—made in a Feb. 19 letter from the U.S. Department of Transportation to the California High-Speed Rail Authority—came after President Donald Trump pledged to reclaim a total of $3.5 billion in funding grants. The bullet train was originally planned to run between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
