Trump administration wants to hand out $2.4 billion it took from California's high-speed railroad

The Trump Administration wants to redistribute $2.4 billion it pulled from California's high-speed rail project as part of a new $5 billion program announced Monday to fund rail projects to boost passenger rail traffic nationwide. The new program will also put a priority on projects in areas with higher rates of birth and marriage and projects that improve safety at railroad crossings. The Trump Administration has removed climate change and so-called DEI language from other grant requirements, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took a jab at that Biden-era language and California Gov. Gain Newsom's rail project in his announcement.