Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the national authorities volition taxable California to a compliance reappraisal to find however national assistance has been utilized connected the state's long-delayed high-speed obstruction project.
Duffy and lawmakers from California held a property league connected Thursday highlighting the ballooning terms of the obstruction plan, which was archetypal announced successful 2008 astatine a outgo of astir $33 billion, advertizing a completion day successful 2020. Today, however, the program has outgo implicit $15.7 cardinal and remains unfinished, with projected costs astatine implicit $128 billion.
"Who got the cash? Where did it go?" Duffy said. "$16 cardinal is simply a batch of money. It's going to beryllium a hard agelong to spot however that wealth was spent."
Duffy noted that the national authorities has spent implicit $2 cardinal connected the project, and the reappraisal volition find whether national assistance volition continue.
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Lawmakers attending the property league were much assertive successful condemning the obstruction project, calling it a "boondogle" and a "mismanaged nightmare."
Duffy called connected California residents to request answers from Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying the Department of Transportation would beryllium unfastened to investing successful a decently budgeted high-speed obstruction task with a definitive timeline.
Duffy's property conference comes amid scrutiny of the U.S. aviation industry. There person been 5 large aviation disasters successful the past month, astir notably a collision implicit Washington, D.C., that killed much than 60 people.
A Delta formation successful Toronto besides flipped upside down during landing past week, an incidental which miraculously near each passengers alive.
Duffy fielded questions from reporters connected Thursday regarding caller firings from the Federal Aviation Administration. He emphasized that the firings did not impact the organization's astir highly skilled workers.
The Trump medication has promised a thorough reappraisal and update of aerial postulation power systems nationwide aft a midair collision betwixt an Army chopper and an American Airlines formation that was astir to onshore astatine Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport connected Jan. 29 killed each 67 radical aboard the 2 aircraft. It was the United States' deadliest aviation catastrophe since 2001.
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