Also, Wisconsin already had two Hiawatha trains sets on order but he rejected them so he could? God only knows why. Maybe because he likes to collect Talgo train sets and watch them rust?

"Because the new Hiawatha trains were already built under a state contract (they had nothing to do with the Milwaukee-Madison route), the state is on the hook for around $50 million it has already paid for sleek new trains Walker stubbornly refuses to take delivery on, and for a related maintenance facility."

[isthmus.com]

Actual facts Wrote:
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> Gov. Walker's administration continued to improve
> Amtrak's Chicago-Milwaukee corridor. These train
> sets were planned before he left office.
> Wisconsin has been negotiating for years with IL,
> CP, and the feds to get more frequencies in that
> corridor. Those efforts are stalled by IL
> politicians, mostly Democrat, bending over for
> rich NIMBY's in the northern Chicago suburbs.
>
> See page 6-2 for the station, signaling, and
> equipment projects in the WI 2019-2022 Statewide
> Transportation Improvement Program finished before
> Walker left office. It says all those projects
> had grant applications for Fed funding already
> submitted, programmed if awarded for FY2019.
>
> [wisconsindot.gov]
> -gov/astnce-pgms/highway/stip/stip.pdf
>
> The Milwaukee airport station 2nd platform grant
> was awarded in March 2019, just 2 months after
> Walker left office. The application was submitted
> long before then.