Will President Biden restore high-speed rail funds that Trump took away from California?
Fresno Bee 2/7/2021 Tim Sheehan, The Fresno Bee
Feb. 7 A new spending plan for high-speed rail construction in the Fresno region anticipates an increase of about $1.3 billion in the price to complete pieces now being built in Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern counties, and expresses hope by state rail leaders of increased federal support from a new presidential administration and Democrat-controlled Congress for a broader statewide project..
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority will meet virtually Tuesday to consider an update to its business plan, which reflects a cost of $13.8 billion to complete a 119-mile line from north of Madera to north of Bakersfield. That s up from about $12.4 billion that was forecast previously.
By: Alex Cameron
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
All indications at the moment are that President Joe Biden and the Democrat-controlled Congress will try to pass the second largest relief package in the nation s history without any support from Republicans.
The largest relief package was the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, which Congress passed with overwhelming bipartisan support last March. Biden’s American Rescue Plan has a price tag of $1.9 trillion. That’s an insane amount of money, said Rep. Markwayne Mullin, (R) OK-2. “We are literally going to bankrupt our economy and our country at the same time that we say we’re trying to save it.
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