President Trump terminates 929 million grant for choo-choo train, exploring legal option to 2 billion+ grants back (Congress, Iraq)
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Glad that President Trump is standing up to a rogue state that manipulates the USDOT to give them money that they have no intention of finishing a project, just proposing fantasies.
California shouldn't get a penny in grants if there is no chance Trump will win California. Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin which are swing states should get lots of grants and money from the feds because they spend the money better and voted for the best in 2016.
Grain farmers on the plains should also get lots of money as they overwhelmingly voted to Make America Great Again in 2016 and 2018.
If Republicans were smart, they would manipulate bills and rain money on purple and red states like Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, North Dakota.
Would be wonderful if they would terminate all the federal grants to California. Any grant money they give goes to unions, very rich state of California workers and inefficient, lazy contractors.
Hopefully, there are major financial ramifications for defrauding the USDOT of billions by proposing a fantasy just to enrich Democratic politicians in California friends.
The high-speed train was nothing more than a fantasy that they had no intention of finishing just a money making scheme for California Democratic politicians friends.
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California signed an agreement....California failed to comply with the terms of the agreement they signed...and California failed to re-negotiate any terms when they failed
...they have to give the money back
of course they will scream, throw a fit...and try to sue
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Think we can get this money back?
