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Team Trump to California: Send High-Speed Rail Funding Back

First, President Donald Trump tweeted criticism Tuesday of both California's high-speed rail project and the state's participation in a multistate lawsuit challenging his emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Then, later in the day, th...
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Costa Says Dem Takeover of Congress Good for High-Speed Rail

As Rep. Jim Costa prepares for the 116th Congress, he remains bullish on the future of high-speed rail in California. The Fresno Democrat has always supported the bullet train and publicly taken on its critics. The estimated $77 billion dollar project is in...
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Push to End Bullet Train in 2020 Could Signal GOP Strategy

SACRAMENTO — Worried they would lack big-name candidates at the top of the ticket this November, California Republicans turned to a ballot measure that would eliminate a recent gas tax increase in hopes of exciting conservatives and ensuring they show up to su...
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Bullet Train Sets Speed Record . . . For Burning Through Cash

Long before it's done, California's bullet train project is setting speed records. Not land speed records, mind you. Spending records. Ralph Vartabedian, the high-speed rail watchdog for the Los Angeles Times, reports that the project has cost state t...