California’s high-speed rail had a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020.

It’s 2025 and the budget has shot up to $128 billion. Sorry, let me correct that, it has shot up to $135 billion. By the time you read this, it’ll probably be up another few billion.

The Trump administration is pulling funding from the ‘train to nowhere’ because well, just look at the Gov. Newsom press release.

“The Authority has met every obligation, as confirmed by repeated federal reviews, as recently as February 2025. America’s only high-speed rail project underway is fast approaching the track-laying phase.”

After 17 years and cost overruns of 1300%, the train is ‘fast’ approaching the track-laying phase. Fast, like high-speed, being measured at the speed of government bureaucracy.

Forget the partisan politics and the animosity toward California, what kind of lunatic goes on funding a project that is off by this amount in time and money… and that has no rational purpose to begin with?

“Trump wants to hand China the future,” Gov Newsom declared. Does handing China the future somehow mean tricking it into spending 17 years on a $135 billion project that no one wants? If so, let’s hand China that future and it can pay for California’s train to nowhere.