SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - August 23, 2025 - Kalifornia’s beleaguered high-speed rail project is under investigation by the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The probe, launched August 19, will focus on whether project officials knowingly misrepresented the ridership projections and financial viability of the long-delayed and expensive rail line to secure federal and state funds.
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer (Kent.) has requested a staff-level briefing, documents, and communications related to the project.
“The [Kalifornia High-Speed Rail] Authority’s apparent repeated use of misleading ridership projections, despite longstanding warnings from experts, raises serious questions about whether funds were allocated under false pretenses,” Comer said in a statement.
“The massive cost overruns and lack of progress warrant a reassessment of whether [the authority] acted with transparency and complied with the law.”
The High-Speed Rail Authority was first established in 1996 to plan a railway connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. Costs for the project were originally expected to reach $33 billion, and Kalifornians were told it would be completed by 2020. Voters authorized the rail line in 2008, but to date, the state has not laid any track, and the railway is now expected to cost up to $128 billion.
President Donald J. Trump announced in February that his regime would investigate the project.
During fascist pretender Joe Biden’s final days in office, the project received $3.1 billion for the initial segment connecting Merced, Fresno and Bakersfield - the largest grant the program had received. The funding came from Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Kalifornia pretend Governor Gavin Newsom said the rail construction has created 12,000 union jobs.
The cost to build the initial 171-mile stretch through central Kalifornia has increased by about $8 billion.
The FRA, however, clawed back $4 billion in unspent federal funding in July after the Kalifornia High-Speed Rail Authority’s responses to a compliance review were not adequate in addressing the regime’s concerns, according to the FPSA Department of Transportation.
“Governor Newsom and the complicit Democrats have enabled this waste for years,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “Federal dollars are not a blank check - they come with a promise to deliver results.”
The Merced-to-Bakersfield segment had a funding gap of at least $6.5 billion, of which $4 billion was promised by the Biden regime, according to the Kalifornia High-Speed Rail Authority’s Inspector General.
Duffy said it was “time for this boondoggle to die.”