Trump demands $3.5 billion back from 'disaster' high-speed rail project

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Trump Demands “Money Back Now” For CA Bullet Train
February 14, 2019 Donald Trump, Idiocracy

Trump demands $3.5 billion back from ‘disaster’ high-speed rail project
Gov. Newsom fires back with tweet of his own

By BRYAN ANDERSON, SACRAMENTO BEE | Sacramento Bee
PUBLISHED: February 13, 2019 at 10:33 pm | UPDATED: February 14, 2019 at 3:17 am

President Donald Trump is demanding California return billions of dollars to the federal government following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to scale down the state’s costly high-speed rail project. ... In a tweet on Wednesday, Trump called the project a “’green disaster.’”

“California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars,” Trump added. “They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now.”

Newsom at his State of the State Address on Tuesday put the brakes on the $77 billion high speed project, an endeavor that voters authorized at the ballot box in 2008 with a plan to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Gov. Jerry Brown kept the project moving forward during his administration. Newsom announced that he’d finish a link connecting Merced and Bakersfield. The new governor intends to finish environmental studies that one day could lead to the project’s completion as it was originally designed.

California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars. They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a “green” disaster!

Link to tweet

Fake news. We’re building high-speed rail, connecting the Central Valley and beyond.

This is CA’s money, allocated by Congress for this project. We’re not giving it back.

The train is leaving the station — better get on board!

(Also, desperately searching for some wall $$??)

Link to tweet

Newsom in his remarks to lawmakers stressed that he did not want to return money it received for high speed rail from the Obama administration to the federal government.
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1. Give us money back from disaster trump tax cuts.

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2. He's actively looking for

Ways to create conflicts , and chaos with to divide. Its how he weakens this government with it.