The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it had revoked $175 million in grants for construction related to California’s high-speed rail project, a little over a month after it nixed $4 billion in federal funding.
What happened: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that the Federal Railroad Administration had withdrawn funding proposals for four projects related to high-speed rail. That included unobligated grants to help design a rail station in Madera, a bridge that will elevate trains over roads in Merced and a project to separate roads from tracks in San Jose.
“The waste ends here. As of today, the American people are done investing in California’s failed experiment,” Duffy said in a statement, calling the targets of Tuesday’s announcement “fantasy projects.”
High-Speed Rail Authority spokesperson Micah Flores said in a statement that the project is expected to begin laying tracks in the Central Valley within the next year, despite opponents “recycling tired political attacks.”
