It’s the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen,” Donald Trump said last week. “I built for a living and I built on time — on budget. ... It’s impossible that something could cost that much.”

DOGE certainly has high-speed rail in its crosshairs. Before DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a run for governor of Ohio, he called high-speed rail “a wasteful vanity project, burning billions in taxpayer cash, with little prospect for completion in the next decade… Time to end the waste.”

Despite uncertainty over its budget and timeline, a majority of Californians who took part in a recent poll say the California High-Speed Rail project is still worthy of state funding. The poll,

California Republicans sent a letter to President Donald Trump late last week supporting his probe into the state’s high-speed rail project. “We owe it to Californians to carefully examine the viability of this project and hold the HSRA (High-Speed Rail Authority) accountable,

President Trump and Republican California lawmakers seized on a new report from the project’s inspector general indicating the project likely will not meet a key timeline goal.