The California High-Speed Rail Authority has repeatedly missed its own deadlines to purchase trains, quietly dropped a lawsuit against the federal government after failing to meet a promise it made to a judge, and still cannot say when it will award a trainset contract, a record that handed the Trump administration a straightforward case for […] The post California's high-speed rail authority can't say when it will buy its trains — and that's why $4 billion vanished appeared first on American Almanac .
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has repeatedly missed its own deadlines to purchase trains, quietly dropped a lawsuit against the federal government after failing to meet a promise it made to a judge, and still cannot say when it will award a trainset contract, a record that handed the Trump administration a straightforward case for pulling $4 billion in federal funding. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cut the money in July 2025 after federal officials noted California had spent $15 billion over 16 years without laying a single mile of high-speed rail track. The state sued within days. Governor Gavin Newsom called the move a "political stunt to punish California." Attorney General Rob Bonta filed suit to block what he called a…Open
I think we should pull the plug on this whole thing,” GOP state Sen. Tony Strickland said on Friday afternoon. “The fact is that they’re moving forward without a realistic plan. Even the inspector general said the plan, moving forward, is unrealistic.”
The pay-television industry’s newest ally in a fight over media ownership is a virulently anti-Trump, illegal migrant advocacy group.Mi Familia Vota is currently airing an attack ad targeting President Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, in hamfisted attempt to keep more conservative voices off America’s airwaves, as previously explained here.The timing is no […] The post SUHR: The Illegal Amnesty Group Weirdly Wading Into Trump’s FCC Policy Fight. appeared first on The National Pulse .
The pay-television industry’s newest ally in a fight over media ownership is a virulently anti-Trump, illegal migrant advocacy group. Mi Familia Vota is currently airing an attack ad targeting President Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, in hamfisted attempt to keep more conservative voices off America’s airwaves, as previously explained here . The timing is no accident, as the Senate Commerce Committee convenes a hearing on the issue set for Tuesday, February 10, which has also raised eyebrows . The development also puts Chris Ruddy’s Newsmax in a eyebrow-raising alliance with a far-left, open borders group. This ad has been all over local NBC News shows from “Mi Familia Vota,” ripping FCC…Open