High-Speed Rail Federal Funding Cut (07/17)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (07/17) - US Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about Pres. Trump cutting federal funding for CA’s high-speed rail project. More on the federal funding for CA's high-speed rail project being cut by Pres. Trump. SB549 has been walked back to be reworked and reintroduced. The LA Times says conspiracy theories are thwarting the rebuilding efforts in fire burn areas.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I-Heart Radio app. |
| 0:10.8 | We're on every day from 1 until 4 o'clock. |
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| 0:17.6 | So if you miss something in the next three hours, after four, you get to |
| 0:21.5 | catch up. We have two big wins, at least two big wins for the moment, happened in the last 12 hours. |
| 0:31.5 | Number one, we're going to talk to Kevin Kiley, the California congressman in just a moment. |
| 0:36.9 | Number one is that Trump, the administration officially cut off $4 billion to the California high-speed rail. |
| 0:47.1 | So that's it for federal funding. |
| 0:50.8 | That's that's done, a done deal. |
| 0:53.5 | Secondly, and we'll get to this later in the hour |
| 0:55.9 | uh yesterday i told you about a senate bill that was going to empower the city of los angeles |
| 1:01.4 | to buy up burned lots in the palisades and uh put low income housing on those lots |
| 1:08.9 | well that was a firestorm and the senator who authored the bill, |
| 1:14.3 | Ben Allen of Santa Monica, has pulled it back and they're going to rework it and try to launch it |
| 1:21.1 | again in January. Two big wins, but you have to shout and kick and scream. |
| 1:28.7 | Let's talk to Kevin Kylie now, Northern California Congressman. |
| 1:32.1 | Kevin, how are you? |
| 1:33.6 | Doing great. |
| 1:34.1 | Thanks, John. |
| 1:35.9 | The Trump administration has cut off the $4 billion in federal money for the high-speed rail. |
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