The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was canceling a federal grant to California worth nearly $1 billion after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the cancelation of the state’s high-speed rail project last week.
Newsom used his “State of the State” address Feb. 12 to cancel the San Francisco-to-Los Angeles project, saying it “would cost too much and, respectfully, would take too long” to complete.
However, he told legislators he wanted to complete the portion of the bullet train under construction in the rural Central Valley, lest the state lose federal dollars granted to California by President Barack Obama as part of the 2009 stimulus: “I am not interested in sending $3.5 billion in federal funding that was allocated to this project back to Donald Trump,” Newsom said.
The Department of Transportation said it was “actively exploring every legal option” to recover the other $2.5 billion granted by the federal government to California for the project.
Newsom complained angrily that Trump was carrying out “political retribution” for California’s legal challenge Monday to his emergency declaration to build a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border. He reiterated: “This is California’s money, and we are going to fight for it,” according to a statement quoted by the Times.
Well, Gavin, we the taxpayers aren't interested in wasting another cent of our hard earned money on your regressive boondoggle. Politicians of whatever stripe should have the use of as little of our money as possible, but certainly not for something so transparently useless as the train to nowhere.
Bite the bullet, Newsom, and give the money back to the feds. They've got plenty of ways to waste it themselves.
Or, how about this idea, Gavin. Negotiate to keep the money, but spend it on some water storage projects, or highway construction. The Feds might let you keep it for something useful like that. Worth a try?
Or, how about this idea, Gavin. Negotiate to keep the money, but spend it on some water storage projects, or highway construction. The Feds might let you keep it for something useful like that. Worth a try?
He'd just give the money to a SF poop patrol.
ReplyDeleteWhen Newsom gives the money back, Trump needs to apportion it to the Wall and to keeping democrat voters out of America... And to put MORE ICE agents on the streets in California. Maybe build a bigger detention center in CA and call it Camp Newsom.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Newsome complaining? After all, last week he said he was suspending work on the wonder-train. Oh, that's right, because the train may be stopped, but the graft keeps rolling on...
ReplyDeleteGavin Newsome is just another welfare queen; it was never "his" money but a wasteful expenditure by a failure of an incumbency.
ReplyDeleteGabbin' Nuisance is a pimple on the backside of humanity, even for this hopeless bastion of liberal stupidity.
ReplyDeleteAnything that makes him cry is good for America.