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    Trump administration to cancel $929 million in California high-speed rail funding

    by Ralph Vartabedian and Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The fate of California's high-speed rail project was cast into further doubt Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Transportation announced plans to cancel $929 million in grant funds, a move that some viewed as political payback.

    The action marks an escalation in the battle between President Donald Trump and the state of California since Gov. Gavin Newsom said last week that the project lacked a path to complete a statewide system and vowed to scale back the $77 billion mega-project.

    The Transportation Department also said it was "actively exploring every legal option" to get back an additional $2.5 billion grant that is being used to finance

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