The purpose of the review is to help determine if $4 billion in taypayer funds should go to the section of the project ...

Team Trump puts the squeeze on the California High-Speed Rail boondoggle, which keeps spending big but shows no signs of ever ...

The Trump administration said Thursday it is opening a review into whether to rescind about $4 billion awarded to ...

At the behest of President Donald Trump, Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy Thursday ordered a Federal Railroad ...

Duffy said the review will focus on additional funds approved by the Biden Administration, but not yet allocated, for the Merced-to-Bakersfield rail connection, one portion of the construction ...

The lawmakers asked why a risk-analysis assessment was not done for the Merced-to-Bakersfield arm of the project. A rendering shows a high-speed rail train as it enters a station during an ...

“The monitoring review identified six areas of interest. In addition, the CHSRA Inspector General published a report on Feb. 3, 2025, that reviewed the Merced-Bakersfield segment of the project and ...

Given the project’s track record of delays and the likelihood that high-speed rail will lose money from operations in the Central Valley, why would any private investor step up?

In 2019, California Gov. Gavin Newsom scaled back the project scope when he advocated completing the Central Valley portion connecting Bakersfield to Merced before expanding the project to connect ...