California, high-speed rail and Trump

What California got wrong and Florida got right with high-speed rail
California promised a rail line for $33 billion. The project is over budget and faces long delays, with no destination in sight
Trump has California’s high-speed rail in his crosshairs again
DOGE certainly has high-speed rail in its crosshairs. Before DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a run for governor of Ohio, he called high-speed rail “a wasteful vanity project, burning billions in taxpayer cash, with little prospect for completion in the next decade… Time to end the waste.”
California high speed rail has $4.3B in unspent federal grants. Could Trump take it away?
What’s needed for San Francisco to LA to happen is we’re going to need the federal partner to say, ‘Get that done.’”
Trump says he’ll investigate California’s high-speed rail; authority calls comments ‘noise’
President Trump said Tuesday that he would investigate California’s high-speed rail plan, calling it “the worst-managed project” he has seen. “They have hundreds of billions of dollars of cost overruns,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s impossible that something could cost that much.”
California leaders respond to President Trump's criticism of the High Speed Rail project
Republican Fresno Mayor defended the project saying it's crucial for the Central Valley and he would support an investigation.
President Trump says he plans to investigate California high-speed rail project
President Donald Trump said he intends to launch an investigation into California's high-speed rail project, calling it the "worst managed project" he's ever seen.
Ted Cruz says he’s investigating California’s High-Speed Rail; this is what he’s done
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he has been investigating the California High-Speed Rail project, accusing the nation’s first publicly funded high-speed rail system of wasting taxpayer money and
Inspector General and President Trump deal new setbacks to high-speed rail boondoggle
Given the project’s track record of delays and the likelihood that high-speed rail will lose money from operations in the Central Valley, why would any private investor step up?
Trump Wants A Probe Into California's High-Speed Rail—Says The Budget Overruns Could Have Bought 'Finest Limousine Service' For Everyone
President Donald Trump is once again targeting California’s high-speed rail project, calling it the “worst-managed project” he’s ever seen and demanding an investigation into its massive cost overruns.
NC seeks assurance from Trump administration that high-speed train project is still a go
A year after awarding $1.1 billion for the first leg of the Raleigh-to-Richmond rail corridor, the U.S. Department of ...
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Southwest states eye passenger trains amid uncertain federal support
From two Colorado lines to more Amtrak service, Southwest states are advancing passenger rail projects, but the Trump ...
Railroads Industry Report 2025: High-Speed Rail and Electrification Trends Drive Railroads Market Growth, Projected to Hit $781.2 Billion by 2030
Significant growth trajectory in the Passenger Rail segment, which is expected to reach US$431.8 Billion by 2030 with a CAGR ...
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Tariff tiff hasn't derailed high-speed rail proposal for Vancouver-Seattle-Portland route
Washington state officials want to double down on the planning for the proposed Cascadia high-speed rail link between ...
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56 High Speed Rail Links We Should've Built Already
Nothing that exists in North America fits the definition of true high-speed rail. If we actually ever started building a network, where would we start? And how would we know when we were done? This ...