Well, it finally happened — and the sound you hear echoing out of Sacramento isn’t a train whistle, it’s the collective gasp of California Democrats watching their favorite cash pipeline slam shut.
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump did what countless taxpayers have been begging Washington to do for years: he yanked the federal funding plug on Gavin Newsom’s so‑called high‑speed rail, a project that has burned through mountains of money and produced little more than photo ops and press releases.
Think about that for a second. A project that started with a $33 billion price tag now stares down an eye‑watering cost of more than $100 billion, and what do we have to show for it? Certainly not a finished railway. Certainly not an efficient transit system whisking commuters between San Francisco and Los Angeles. No, what we have is miles of dirt, scattered construction debris, and endless political speeches about “sustainability.”
And here’s the kicker: even after watching the price balloon to three times the original cost, even after years of delays and headlines calling it a “train to nowhere,” California Democrats were still scrambling for more of your money. Late December — just weeks before Trump took office — a pack of them, names you’ll recognize like Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, sent a letter practically begging Pete Buttigieg to shovel another half a billion dollars into the mess. They dressed it up in flowery language about “global competitiveness” and “equity,” but the translation is simple: please bail us out before the public notices how bad this really looks.
🟥 💥 You Were Warned! Transportation Sec.@SecDuffy alerted California weeks ago that the bullet train was years behind, and outrageously over budget🚨Trump pulled $4 billion in federal funding to stop the waste.
🎥Watch the video—reminder’s in the works. pic.twitter.com/ZZUwiQJ8d8
— April Color (@ColorApril) July 17, 2025
And they almost got away with it. For years, the federal spigot has poured out billions into this fantasy project while Newsom stood in front of cameras boasting, “We’re making rail real in California.” But here’s the uncomfortable truth they don’t want you to remember — nothing about this rail line is real except the invoices. The tunnels? Still in planning stages. The first phase? Perpetually “advancing.” The grand promises? Buried under cost overruns and regulatory red tape.
Then came Wednesday. Trump took to Truth Social with that signature flair and dropped the hammer: “I have officially freed you from funding California’s disastrously overpriced, ‘HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE.’” He didn’t mince words.
He called out Newsom — or as he put it, “Newscum” — for burning through hundreds of billions and delivering nothing. He slammed the project as overregulated, overpriced, and undelivered. And he didn’t stop there. He made it crystal clear that, thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, not a single federal penny will be wasted on that project ever again.
BREAKING 🚨💥 Trump pulls the plug on Gavin Newsom’s fantasy train.
Originally $33B, now projected at $124B+—$91B over budget with zero track running.
15 years, nothing to show. 🇺🇸
No more bullet train to nowhere. No more lies.
The plug’s been pulled. ✅ pic.twitter.com/0mx9Vow0mD— April Color (@ColorApril) July 17, 2025
You can almost hear the backroom scrambling in Sacramento. What happens when the federal gravy train screeches to a halt and the only thing left to show for it is a graveyard of half‑built structures and a legacy of political arrogance?
But here’s the part they don’t want you thinking about too hard: if this is what happens when one project finally loses its lifeline, what other “can’t‑fail” schemes are quietly draining billions while delivering nothing — and who’s next in line to get cut off?
