Federal Funding for California High-Speed Rail Terminated Amidst Trump-Newsom Clash A political showdown between the U.S. federal government and California has intensified as approximately $4 billion in unspent federal funding for California’s High-Speed Rail project has been terminated.

The Trump administration revoked federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project on Wednesday, intensifying uncertainty about how the state will make good on its long-delayed promise of build...

“This is California’s fault. Governor [Gavin] Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a prepared statement.