Trump criticizes the problematic project of the bullet train in California and compassionate death can earn

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President Donald Trump denounced On Tuesday, delays and increasing costs for the California bullet project and said that Your administration will investigate How thousands of millions of federal and state dollars were spent.

“The train, which is being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the most managed project I have ever seen and have seen some of the oldest,” Trump told reporters, saying that the project exceeds the budget in “Billions of Millions of millions and billions of dollars.

“We’ll start a great investigation into this because I’ve never seen anything like that,” he added. “No one has seen anything like that. The oldest surpluses that were in the history of our country. “

Trump’s comments happened just 24 hours after the project Inspector, Benjamin Belnap, Issue an energetic report In the first phase of what is expected as a state system, saying that the railway authority is unlikely to be able to fulfill its current goal of starting a service for passengers between Merced and Bakersfield in 2033.

“With a lower schedule, the potential of uncertainty and significant risk during the next phases of the project is unlikely to remain within the schedule in 2033,” Belnap reports. “In fact, uncertainty for some parts of the project has increased as the authority has recently made decisions that have been diverted from the acquisition and financing strategies that are part of their plans to implement the graph.”

This is the last chapter in the painful story of the project that was promoted by public transport defenders more than three decades before the voters They will approve of bond issuance for $ 9,950 million In 2008

Since then, civil servants have been difficult to complete the original segment of 119 miles between Chuchila and a garden near Schauhther, even less than 52 miles of Merced and Bakersfield extensions that governor Gavin Newo took care of after becoming governor in 2019.

NEWSOM roughly criticizes the project when it takes over and said, “Let us be realistic. The current project, as planned, would cost too much and it would take too much time with all its respect. There was very little supervision and insufficient transparency. “

“At that time, there is simply no way to arrive from Sacramento to San Diego (in the second phase), much less than San Francisco to Los Angeles,” Newsom said. “I wish I had it. However, we have the ability to complete a high rail link between Merced and Bakersfield. “

His tune has changed In recent years, as the administration has brought billions in federal support.

According to current calculations, the Merced-Bakersfield project will cost $ 35.3 billion, more than 2008 projection for a complete systemS However, the budget analyzer of the legislature, Gabe Peak, He says he has only $ 28.7 billion In government bonds, federal subsidies and a quarter of the state’s income due to greenhouse gas emissions permits, ie up to $ 1,000 million a year.

This latest source of income, known as “Restriction and Trade”, was approved by legislators on the assumption that a bullet train would play an important role in the crusade of the state against carbon.

Project employees have estimated that the state system would reduce travel by car by 10 million miles a dayBut the Californians say almost one billion miles every day. A reduction by 10 million miles would obviously reduce emissions by only 1%.

It would logically make it a bigger sense to spend money from tenders in more direct carbon reduction programs, such as reducing forest fires that generate emissions.

The current San Francisco Budget with Southern California is $ 107,000 million. Authorities do not even know how to fully fund the Merced-Bakersfield project, much less raise the remaining $ 72.4 billion they would need.

Trump’s opposition adds another uncertaintyS During his first Presidency, Trump reimbursed some of the federal funds provided by the Obama administration, but had to return the money after California filed a case.

Trump seems even more delayed to derail the bullet train in California. Given his unfortunate story, he can be a merciful act.

This opinion article was originally published by CalmattersS