Sen Ernst Wants to ‘Put Brakes on Boondoggles,’ Starting With Pelosi’s $6.7 Billion San Francisco Subway Extension

A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train operator waits for passengers to enter the train at the Daly City station in Daly City, California on Aug. 15, 2011. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) awarded her latest Squeal Award on July 27 to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for sending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to a project to extend San Francisco’s public transit system to Silicon Valley in California’s Santa Clara Valley.

“Democrats attempted to earmark money in the COVID relief package earlier this year for a subway extension from San Francisco to Silicon Valley,” Ernst told reporters during a July 27 news conference. The FTA is part of the Department of Transportation.