U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he is confident the administration will defeat any lawsuit challenging the department's decision to rescind $4 billion in U.S. government funding for California's High-Speed Rail project.
"I wish it could have gone to California. We were supportive of the California project, but when we're 16 years in and $15 billion without a track laid, and it's going to cost over $130 billion and no funding pathway for it, no timeline to complete it, we have to pull the plug," Duffy told reporters outside the department's headquarters.