Trump administration takes aim at $4B in funding for California high-speed rail

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7. China would have built it in a month and a half

Congress needs to make a workaround for infrastructure. We also need a gazillion miles of electric infrastructure to shift away from burning carbon. People made fun of the Biden administration's electric charging stations, billions spent with nothing to show for it while Musk was building his own by the hundreds.

We build things and they cost ten times as much as they do elsewhere. Sweetheart contracts to favored companies.