$50K for DEI Trainings, $5 Mil for Graffiti Removal, and No Rail Line: How California's High-Speed Rail Project Has Burned Through Taxpayer Cash

Flavius Niculescu

When the Trump administration announced it was investigating California's long-troubled high-speed rail project, the top official overseeing it pressed back. Though the project has more than tripled in price to $106 billion, the official said that "every dollar is accounted for." While the money is indeed accounted for, that accounting does not paint a rosy picture for the Golden State. State audits over the past 15 years, which the Washington Free Beacon reviewed, have found a litany of