The Trump administration is pulling more federal funding from California’s High-Speed Rail project. On Tuesday, the Department of Transportation announced it was withdrawing roughly $175 million previously awarded by President Joe Biden to the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

The powerful House Oversight Committee is probing whether cost and ridership estimates were ‘misrepresented’ in order to secure federal and state funding.

California voters approved the high-speed rail project to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco in 2008, proposed then to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020, but that never