"$30 Billion To $231 Billion" - California's High Speed Rail SCAM EXPOSED
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Steve Hilton walks PBD through California’s high‑speed rail “bridge to nowhere,” how Newsom’s project ballooned from $30 billion to $231 billion, still has no track, and is now funded by hidden cap‑and‑trade taxes — all while Californians pay more for gas, energy and fantasy trains.
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| 0:00.0 | What do you stand with the, you know, the rail, the high speed rail that he was supposed to build? |
| 0:06.5 | I was just there. |
| 0:08.6 | I lost track of the days, two days ago. |
| 0:11.5 | We just stood in front of literally a bridge to nowhere. |
| 0:16.5 | I drive up and down the Central Valley all the time. |
| 0:19.5 | It's the 99 highway or the 5 freeway. |
| 0:21.9 | It's mostly in the middle, the 99. |
| 0:24.8 | And we haven't put it out yet, so you won't find this. |
| 0:27.1 | But the infrastructure they've built is just all. |
| 0:34.3 | You can see up and down. |
| 0:37.1 | Here are the numbers. |
| 0:38.3 | So they said that it would be opened by 2020, |
| 0:41.3 | two and a half hours, San Francisco to LA, |
| 0:43.3 | and total cost of 30 billion. |
| 0:45.3 | Here's the latest, they laughably call it a business plan. |
| 0:50.3 | This was just published like two weeks ago by the High Speed Rail Authority. |
| 0:53.3 | Budget, from 30 billion to 231 billion, the budget. |
| 0:59.5 | The plan is now from San Francisco to Merced, which is at the top of the center. |
| 1:05.1 | You go inland, top of the Central Valley. |
| 1:07.3 | That's on the existing trains, not high speed. |
| 1:10.6 | Then you get on the high speed train |
| 1:12.7 | at Merced and you go down to Bakersfield, high speed train. Then Bakersfield to L.A., bus. |
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