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California Democrats Race Against Time for More High-Speed Rail Funding

Lawmakers are seeking $536 million from the outgoing administration as Trump’s team vows to derail the project.

Courtesy of the California High Speed Rail Authority
An artist's rendering of the all-electric, 200-mph bullet train that California hopes will ferry people between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Courtesy of the California High Speed Rail Authority
PERRY CHIARAMONTE
PERRY CHIARAMONTE

Democratic lawmakers in California are making a last-ditch effort to secure more than half a billion in funding for the state’s long-delayed high-speed rail project before President Trump takes office in January.

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PERRY CHIARAMONTE
PERRY CHIARAMONTE

Mr. Chiaramonte was an investigative reporter and producer at Fox News, a correspondent for the New York Post, and a news editor for the Messenger.

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