Kevin Kiley: “yesterday Governor Newsom introduced his budget proposal in Sacramento and has decided to double State funding for…”

“yesterday Governor Newsom introduced his budget proposal in Sacramento and has decided to double State funding for high-speed rail. This is the absolute definition of insanity. It has been some 16 years, 17 years since the project was approved. They have spent $17 billion, and there has not been a single passenger. Even under the most wildly optimistic scenarios, we are going to have a line from Palmdale to Gilroy in 20 years that will require 2 hours of additional travel on each end to get from San Francisco to L.A. In 20 years, riders will be able to get from San Francisco to L.A. in 6 hours, something you can do on a plane in 1 hour today. This project has been called a project that won't even be built within the next century by even sources like The New York Times. I have introduced legislation to eliminate all future Federal funding for high-speed rail. The Governor continues to believe that Federal funding will come. It is not going to come. There is currently an investigation by the Department of Transportation as well, and I have asked for an investigation by FBI Director Kash Patel to look into exactly where all of this money went. It is time to end this irresponsible failure of a project--the biggest public infrastructure failure in U.S.…”