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White House Threatens to Take Back Bullet Train Funding

By Riley Guerin | May 25, 2012
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May 25, 2012

White House Threatens to Take Back Bullet Train Funding

Gov. Brown wants to start building but key senators want to hold more public hearings.

The White House is threatening to take back $3.3 billion in federal grants to California to start construction of a bullet train, if the Legislature does not appropriate the state's share of the funding by June, reports the Daily Journal.

Gov. Jerry Brown wants to start building this year a $6 billion track segment running from Bakersfield to Fresno (The complete $68 billion project will link Los Angeles and Anaheim to San Francisco). But key senators want to hold more public hearings on the controversial project and are balking at the Transportation Department's deadline. It is also not clear whether the department can legally rescind the grants.
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Riley Guerin

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