Trump’s Latest Move on High-Speed Rail Breaks Campaign Promises

For Immediate Release (19-5) Contact: Xenophon Strategies - (202) 289-4001 Washington, D.C.—The Rail Passengers Association condemns the Trump Administration’s attempt to claw back federal grant money from the California high-speed rail project. This is a direct reversal of Candidate Trump’s promise to use his experience in the private sector to put Americans to work closing the infrastructure deficit between the U.S. and the rest of the developed world—specifically with regards to high-speed rail. “President Trump promised to restore ambition to U.S. infrastructure,” said Rail Passengers President Jim Mathews. “You can’t achieve that goal by blowing up the most advanced rail project in the country—the only one currently under construction. It’s a betrayal of the voters, and it’s a betrayal of the more than 2,000 American workers who are right now, today, building this next-

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