U.S. Rep Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, has introduced H.R. 9308, the “No Frankenrail Act,” to pull federal funds for high-speed rail projects.
This bill aims to cut off funding for any high-speed rail project that hasn’t laid a single mile of track after a decade of federal support.
“After 15 years and billions of your hard-earned tax dollars spent, California’s High-Speed Rail has delivered zero results—just broken promises and empty rhetoric,” said Garcia. “This so-called ‘high-speed’ rail hasn’t produced any rail, and it’s certainly not moving at any speed. This isn’t just fiscal irresponsibility, it’s a betrayal of the trust Californians have placed in their government.”
Garcia emphasized the need to redirect funds to projects that actually serve the community. “This isn’t high-speed rail, it’s Frankenstein’s monster—a clumsy, costly project that’s wreaking havoc in our communities without delivering any real benefits. We need real infrastructure improvements, like expanding Metrolink and increasing freeway capacity, not wasting more money on this failure.”
Garcia is calling on his colleagues in Congress to support this legislation and put an end to the spending on a project that has consistently failed to deliver.
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6 Comments
Vote blue if you’re pro high speed rail.
Funny thing is that Trump was signing the priases of high speed rail on the call with Elon the other day.
The monster in all of this is the fact that, unlike the east coast and all of Europe, the west coast has no high speed rail options becasue of politicians like Garcia who have killed fundng based on pressure from the auto and airline industies and others who oppose it based on their financial interets.
Bravo Mr. Garcia! Such a waste of taxpayers money … someone is getting rich and it’s not us little people
I don’t care how much money we spend on high-speed rail. This country needs to start building more, not less. These ignorant Republicans who think that we should go backwards is exactly why we need to vote Democratic politicians into office. It’s for the future generations.
Im not surprized, Mike Garcia seems to have a very limited view of “what going forward” means…. This is not now nor will it ever be a good idea. We must not go backwards!
Vote Blue!
Praying that your bill passes!..it continues to be more wasteful spending