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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Natalie Wilson

Huge setback for California’s $128bn high-speed rail project after Trump cuts funding

Rosecrans Marquardt was due to accommodate California’s future high-speed trains - (Courtesy California High-Speed Rail Authority)

Donald Trump has cut $4bn in federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project, calling plans to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles a “train to nowhere”.

The US president claimed the “disastrously priced” train network was a “boondoggle” led by the “incompetent” California state governor, Gavin Newsom.

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