AMERICANTHINKER (American Thinker Blog) - Democrats want to build a passenger train--in Texas?!
By Mike McDaniel I suppose the Democrat mania for trains could be a contagion, like Trump Derangement Syndrome.
THEFEDERALIST (Chris Bray) - A California City Drops Houses On Gavin Newsom’s Bullet Train
Once Phase One of Phase One of Phase One is complete, the state will begin thinking about connecting high-speed rail to Bakersfield, which will constitute Phase Two of Phase One of Phase One.
DAILYCALLER (Paris Apodaca) - As California Burns Billions To Fail At High-Speed Rail, China Laid Enough Track To Circle America Three Times
‘Where did the money go?’
YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - ‘FROM BAD TO WORSE: California's $231B rail NIGHTMARE
‘The Big Money Show’ examines soaring costs of California’s high-speed rail project after years of delays and now a looming funding shortfall. #foxbusiness #bigmoneyshow 0:07 — California’s High-Speed Rail: $33B Promise Turns Into a $231B Project 0:23 — No Track Laid as Rail Authority Faces Looming Funding Crisis 0:44 — Bakersfield Residents Debate Whether the Train Will Deliver 1:50 — Leadership Turnover and a Shrinking Vision for California Rail 2:44 — “Train to Nowhere” Faces Delays, Massive Cost Overruns and 2040 Timeline
YOUTUBE (Fox Business) - Gavin Newsom can't run a railroad, but he wants to run for president, GOP lawmaker says
Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif., discusses the state's high-speed rail cost on 'The Bottom Line.' #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxbusiness #thebottomline #california #politics #political #politicalnews #government #gavinnewsom #newsom #vincefong #rail #transportation #highspeedrail #infrastructure #costs #spending #taxpayers #congress #republicans #gop #president #election
REDSTATE (Bob Hoge) - Gavin Newsom's Bullet Train to Nowhere Is Going Broke, and I Say: Let It Die
THEFEDERALIST (Chris Bray) - Gavin Newsom’s Bungled High-Speed Rail Project Includes Zero Trains
'High-Speed Rail did not dispute that it missed the deadline. It did not provide an explanation.'
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Pete Buttigieg: Higher taxes will help build high-speed rail | RISING
OPINION: Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says America can be a "fairer country" if it uses wealth taxes to build better infrastructure like a high-speed railway. #PeteButtigieg #Trains #Taxes About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day's political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is going to happen. It also sets the day's political agenda by breaking exclusive news with a team of scoop-driven reporters and demanding answers during interviews with the country's most important political newsmakers. Follow Rising on social media:…
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - California's high-speed rail authority can't say when it will buy its trains — and that's why $4 billion vanished
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…Open