{"id":107926,"date":"2025-12-24T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:53:08","slug":"california-ditches-fight-with-feds-for-high-speed-rail-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107926\/","title":{"rendered":"California Ditches Fight With Feds For High-Speed Rail Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/STOCA1:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">California<\/a> has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trump administration that sought to recover roughly $4 billion in federal funds pulled from the state\u2019s long-delayed high-speed rail project, after concluding it can no longer rely on the federal government to help deliver the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The suit was filed after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0251181Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Federal Railroad Administration<\/a> began canceling federal grants for the project totaling about $4 billion, arguing the California High-Speed Rail Authority had failed to deliver on commitments amid years of delays and cost overruns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trump administration that sought to recover roughly $4 billion in federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39011,7,9,58126,8,4019,10554,405,8076,17965,13,435],"class_list":["post-107926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-americas","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-high-speed-rail-a","tag-california-news","tag-construction","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-government","tag-infrastructure","tag-materials","tag-politics","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}