FRA will review CHSRA and Merced-Bakersfield segment’s progress, including compliance for federal grant agreements to determine whether CHSRA has fully met its obligations

USA: 'With multiple independent federal and state audits completed, every dollar is accounted for, and we stand by the progress and impact of this project', California High-Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri said after recently appointed US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a review of federal

While U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy questioned the cross-state high-speed rail project, he praised the Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles effort.

The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant, potentially threatening the viability of the troubled project.

Duffy, speaking at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, said the Federal Railroad Administration will review the rail project and its leadership.

The Trump administration is once again targeting California's controversial high-speed rail project, with federal transportation officials on Thursday announcing an investigation and possible withdrawal of about $4 billion in federal funding.

Republicans have long targeted high-speed rail, despite its popularity with a majority of Californians. U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, who appeared with Duffy and introduced legislation in December to defund it, blasted the railway as “the worst public infrastructure failure in U.S. history.”

The Federal Railroad Administration initiated a review of California's 400-mile high-speed rail project aimed at connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco following concerns voiced by the Trump Administration,

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the California high-speed rail project will continue to cost taxpayers billions of dollars with no definitive timeline for completion.

The Trump admin is putting a "disastrous" high-speed rail project in California on notice after it started almost two decades ago and has "no rail" being built.