Devin Nunes Misrepresents BART Funding During CPAC Speech as 'Tunnel From Silicon Valley to San Francisco' We're back to the Republicans' favorite game of using "San Francisco" as a stand-in for everything detestable about liberals. And at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the weekend, California congressmen Devin Nunes and Kevin McCarthy latched on to some BART funding that is in the current $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as an example of excessive liberal spending. BART is set to receive $140 million to help accelerate — and not even fully fund — the project to extend the BART tracks in the East Bay down into San Jose. Some of these funds may go toward the ultimate goal of tunneling into downtown San Jose, but really we're still a long way from that becoming a reality. And given BART's general budget woes following a year of record-low ridership, the money is meant to keep the project from being put on indefinite hold, getting more expensive the more time that passes.