Trump links California lawsuit against his 'emergency' to his yanking of state high-speed rail funds
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There has never been a modern presidency more devoted to screwing the administration's perceived enemies. After California and other states filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's declaration of a still-invisible «national emergency» on the southern bTrump links California lawsuit against his 'emergency' to his yanking of state high-speed rail funds
There has never been a modern presidency more devoted to screwing the administration's perceived enemies. After California and other states filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's declaration of a still-invisible «national emergency» on the southern border, it took only about a day for Trump's Transportation Department to respond by pulling $929 million from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, with a further threat to find some legal mechanism for requiring the state to repay the $2.5 billion in federal funds already spent. But wait, you say. Perhaps the timing is coincidental, and perhaps Donald Trump has nothing to do with it. Mmm-hmm. xAs I predicted, 16 states, led mostly by Open Border Democrats and the Radical Left, have filed a lawsuit in, of course, the 9th Circuit! California, the state that has wasted billions of dollars on their out of control Fast Train, with no hope of completion, seems in charge!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 19, 2019 Or perhaps Donald Trump blurts out whatever he thinks whenever he thinks it, providing an astonishing if unnerving map of a malfunctioning, revenge-obsessed human brain at work. The California High-Speed Rail project has been something of a mess since its inception. The original project to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles began with inadequate funding and planning; after delays and staggering cost overruns, new state Gov. Gavin Newsom caused a stir when he announced the project would be scaled back and refocused on completing only the already-under-construction segments in the Central Valley, eventually connecting Bakersfield to Merced, with the rest of the ambitious project to be worked out at a later date. Whether the federal government can yank remaining funds due to a change in project scope is not clear, and will no doubt be hashed-out in court; the threat to pull funds already spent is more dodgy still. We should note in passing that there is no topic on which Donald Trump can resist lying his behind off. Trump followed his first tweet with one insisting that the «failed Fast Train project» is «hundreds of times more expensive» than his demanded «Wall.» The most recent estimates for completing the entire Los Angeles-San Francisco line are around $77 billion; Trump's demands for funding an initial, unspecified portion of border wall have fluctuated in the $2 billion to $5 billion range. We would point out that 77 billion is not «hundreds of times» more than 5 billion, which again raises questions as to whether Donald Trump, self-alleged billionaire, knows how numbers work. Read more