California Has Spent over $5bn on 'Bullet Train to Nowhere' -- Enough for Trump's Border Wall Request | Breitbart

California Has Spent over $5bn on 'Bullet Train to Nowhere' -- Enough for Trump's Border Wall Request | Breitbart: The State of California has now spent over $5 billion on its long-delayed high-speed rail project — roughly the same amount of money that Democrats are refusing to provide President Donald Trump for his border wall proposal. The California High-Speed Rail Authority, which intends to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles with a bullet train, was approved by voters in a 2008 referendum. However, barely any of it has been built. The cost of the train continues to rise; the technical difficulties continue to mount; and the public remains unconvinced of its value. Lee Ohanian of the conservative Hoover Institution wrote last month: See original work for more on this and other stories.