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And this is big news breaking just the last hour or two.

The Trump administration is cutting off funding to high speed rail.

$4 billion in future funding has been withdrawn, shut down, pulled back.

The state's going to have about 30 days to make the case that it complied with the terms of the $4 billion grant.

The Department of Transportation issued a actually through their Federal Railroad administration that they oversee.

I said that there's no viable path.

That's the big phrase and all the headlines.

No viable path forward to complete high speed rail.

They have massive cost overruns, missed deadlines, projected ridership that is total nonsense,

no actual track on the ground.

And this is after 17 years, over $17 billion.

Let's go to Tom McClintock, Northern California, Congressman, Republican, who's been with us, on with us frequently.

Tom, I know we're going to go through the formality of having the Newsom administration respond to this,

but it looks like as far as the federal government funding, this is dead. This is dead for the rest of Trump's term.

Well, we knew it was the worst boondoggle in history 25 years ago when we argued in the state

legislature, and it hasn't gotten any better. Their passenger estimates have always been

grossly inflated. They began predicting eight times the passengers that were presently

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