Newsom Drops High Speed Rail Lawsuit (12/29)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (12/29) - Lou Penrose fills in for John. Congressman Kevin Kiley comes on the show to talk about Gov. Gavin Newsom dropping his lawsuit regarding federal funding for CA's high speed rail. Lou says that the economy is doing well. What's this billionaire tax in California?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. |
| 0:10.7 | Lou Penrose sitting in for John Cobalt this week. |
| 0:13.3 | Good to have you along with us. |
| 0:16.2 | Congressman Kevin Kylie put out a statement today, |
| 0:18.9 | and it reads, Governor Newsom has finally acknowledged reality. |
| 0:22.1 | In 17 years, no track has been laid, while the projected cost has exploded to $128 billion. |
| 0:30.5 | I didn't know that. |
| 0:31.6 | 128 now? |
| 0:35.6 | The original project was under 30. |
| 0:38.3 | This is an extraordinary failure of planning and accountability. |
| 0:41.3 | Our federal transportation dollars should be used when they actually can make a difference, |
| 0:45.3 | like fixing our roads, and investing in regional and local transit that Californians can depend on every day. |
| 0:51.3 | It is well past time to wind this project down and redirect funding |
| 0:56.0 | away from a train system that may never be built toward real transportation needs. Congressman |
| 1:02.0 | Kevin Colley will join us here in a moment. But he's absolutely right. It's okay to admit it didn't |
| 1:09.8 | work. Like, it's okay. The money's gone. There's no way to get it didn't work. It's okay. |
| 1:12.4 | The money's gone. |
| 1:13.8 | There's no way to get it back. |
| 1:15.3 | A lot of people had jobs building things |
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