Trump administration threatens $4B in funding for California high-speed rail spending

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : During his first term in office, Trump canceled $1 billion in federal funding that had been promised to the project.
49% : The next day, California Republicans sent Trump a letter urging him to investigate the high-speed rail authority.
36% : In the years since, it has become somewhat of a poster child for political dysfunction.
30% : Earlier this month, Trump -- who has regularly used deep-blue California as a political punching bag -- signaled that he might launch a probe into the high-speed rail project, saying during a press conference at the Oval Office that it was the "worst-managed project" he's ever seen and that the state could save "hundreds of billions" by providing "the finest limousine service" for people traveling between San Francisco and Los Angeles rather than finishing the railroad.

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