'The Thing Is Off The Rails!': Doug LaMalfa Shreds California's High Speed Rail Project

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During a speech on the House floor Tuesday, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) spoke about Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's decision to pull funding for California's high speed rail project.

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00:00Thank You Madam Speaker. I heartily applaud Secretary Duffy's decision the

00:06other day to repeal, to rescind the four billion dollars that the federal

00:11government has put in at the end of the Biden administration for high-speed rail

00:15in California. Indeed it has been a clown show. The thing is off the rails

00:19with any kind of goal it was ever going to meet. It was supposed to have been

00:22completed by 2020 and at best it would be completed by 2040-45 with just one

00:28segment between Bakersfield and Merced. Hopefully by 2033 they hope. Instead

00:34let's move that four billion dollars to something useful such as expanding State

00:38Route 99 in California, I-15, I-5, Interstate 395, Interstate 80, or repairs on

00:46roadways designated as farm to market roads, or State Route 152 by raising it a

00:50little bit we'll be able to add more water supply to the San Luis Reservoir or

00:54the bridge over on I-5 over the Shasta Lake that would allow us to raise the

00:58level of that lake and provide more water, much more water for the State of

01:02California in order to grow crops for what people need, bring inflation down on

01:06the food prices by re-channeling money into something useful instead of useless

01:10instead like this clown show that high-speed rail for California's been for

01:1320 years. I yield back.

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