New Report: ‘California Crazy Train’ Part Of $163 Billion In Infrastructure Boondoggles
These and other projects have cost Americans more than $160 billion, with California’s much-ballyhooed bullet train leading the pack.
by Andrew Kerr July 30, 2025, 9:48 AM
California’s long-troubled high-speed rail project is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to taxpayer-funded infrastructure boondoggles, according to a new report from Sen. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. [emphasis, links added]
With an original completion date of 2020, the California High-Speed Rail Project has now gone $95 billion over budget with a revised launch date no earlier than 2030, leading the Trump administration to pull $4 billion in unspent federal funding from the troubled effort in July.
But the rail project represents just one of 13 infrastructure projects funded by the Department of Transportation and other federal agencies that are collectively $163 billion over budget, according to the Ernst report.
“Slamming the brakes on the California Crazy Train, that I fought for years to defund, was a strong start, but there is a lot more work to do,” Ernst told the Free Beacon.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/report-california-infrastructure-boondoggles/
