Build High Speed Rail

In 2008, California voters approved a bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours. Construction is underway — but Trump just pulled $4 billion in federal funding as political retribution against our state. Republicans in Congress then quietly made the project permanently ineligible for future federal support.

This is sabotage, not policy. The federal government has always been a partner in building major infrastructure. California has already committed $1 billion a year through 2045. What we need is a Congress that honors its commitments.

In Congress, I will:

• Introduce legislation to restore the $4 billion in federal grants and repeal the defunding provision
• Fight for full federal investment to complete the line from San Francisco's Transbay Terminal to downtown LA
• Champion a national high speed rail strategy
• Ensure every rail dollar comes with strong union wage and labor protections

This is about more than one rail line. This is about whether we, as a nation, can still do big things. We must use this project as a way to build up the capacity to then keep going – to build more rail faster and cheaper.

Seventy miles of guideway are already built. Dozens of major structures are complete. Abandoning it now would be one of the most wasteful infrastructure decisions in American history. We need to finish what California started.