Trump threatened to take back $4 billion for high-speed rail after an audit says it has no viable path forward. Local leaders react.

The Trump administration said it would pull roughly $4 billion in federal funding for California’s long-planned high-speed train, a project that has, over decades, become an avatar for the country’s declining ability to complete transformative new infrastructure.

California’s controversial rail project is about to lose federal funding, but powerful Democrats are doubling down on their support.