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Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Government would submit California to a compliance examination to determine how federal aid was used on the high -speed high speed rail project.
Duffy and California legislators held a press conference Thursday highlighting the rail plan hot airline price, which was announced for the first time in 2008 at the cost of around $ 33 billion, announcing a completion date in 2020. Hui, however, the plan cost more than $ 15.7 billion and remains unfinished, with costs planned for more than 128 billion Dollars.
“Who got the money? Where did he go?” Said Duffy. “16 billion dollars is a lot of money. It will be a difficult effort to see how this money was spent.”
Duffy noted that the federal government had spent more than $ 2 billion on the project, and the exam will determine whether federal aid will continue.
Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said that he is investing in the way California has spent funds on its high -speed rail project. (Chris Kleponis / CNP / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
The legislators participating in the press conference were more aggressive to condemn the railway project, appealing it a “boondogle” and a “Malédable nightmare”.
Duffy called on California residents to demand responses from Governor Gavin Newsom, saying that the Ministry of Transport would be open to investing in a high -speed rail project properly budgeted with a final calendar.
The separation of Grade Elkhorn under construction during a high -speed rail project in the county of Fresno, California, Monday, April 18, 2022. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Duffy press conference Comes in the midst of the American aviation industry exam. There were five major aeronautical disasters in the last month, including a collision on Washington, DC, which killed more than 60 people.
A Delta flight in Toronto also overturned during landing last week, an incident that miraculously left all the passengers alive.
The first speakers work on the Delta Air Lines plane accident site at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, February 17, 2025. (Reuters / Arlyn McAdorey / Reuters)
DUFFY answered questions from journalists on recent dismissals of the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday. He stressed that the layoffs did not affect the most qualified workers in the organization.
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The Trump administration promised a In -depth examination and update Air traffic control systems at the national level after an outdoor collision between an army helicopter and an American flight Airlines which was about to land at Ronald Reagan National Airport of Washington the January 29 killed the 67 people aboard the two planes. It was the deadliest aviation disaster in the United States since 2001.
