NASA Administrator Sean Dafi, before the Kennedy Space Center for Space Launch Complex 39A, NASA and SpaceX Launch Crew -11 mission on 31 July 2025, Cape Canawral, before launching for the International Space Station in Florida. Armstrong Operations and Control Building visited.
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Transport secretary Scene Dafi On Tuesday, California’s high-speed rail project was taken $ 175 million, only a month later $ 4 billion cancellation In federal grant.
Dafi cited four projects related to the comprehensive California high-speed rail initiative, which will lose funds including track extensions, grade separation, design work and construction of a railway station in Madra. Dafi said that the entire project has thus spent $ 15 billion at the cost so far, called it a “boon”.
Dafi said, “In twenty years, California has not been able to track a single high-speed rail.” statement“Waste ends here. Till date, American people are investing in unsuccessful use of California. Instead, my department will focus on making the journey great again by investing in well -managed projects that can make projects like high -speed rail reality.”
An aerial image shows the high -speed rail (CAHSR) transit project in Hanford, California on February 12, 2025 as part of the highway 198 and construction workers building Hanford Viaducts in the previous agricultural sectors.
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority did not immediately respond to the CNBC request for comments.
Dafi on Tuesday directed the Federal Railroad Administration to review all disrupted grants for the project.
In July, administration Cancelled All federal funding of the railway group after a FRA Report It found “serious concerns” with the viability of the project, including the alleged inability to fulfill the project with its time limit and its contracting conditions.
California Filed for suit Transport Department in July for its “illegal” action. In OP-Ed In Sacramento B, Dafi wrote that California village Gavin Newsome “There is no clue what the functional government looks.”
The project was originally According In 2008, after a state ballot measurement with the target of connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours, but it was later it was cut down To serve a small 170 miles between mead and bakersfield,
According to the FRA, the current recurrence of the plan was estimated to be around 22 billion dollars with an estimated end date of 2033.
The railway system first told CNBC that most of its funding is provided by the state and not by the government.
