Espee99 Wrote:
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> Guys its simple, no money for us in California due
> to climate change. The climate is changing and so
> is the political will. Until either is solved we
> will be an island.
>
> But they will put monies into existing systems, as
> that is what is needed to avoid highway
> construction the the country cannot fund.

As the Zen Master likes to say: "We'll see"....

I'm buying popcorn myself. I suspect with the conservative Federal courts that the RR's will back CARB off, and that you are right about cuts in spending on some of the climate measures.

Trump's attempts to punish California might be tried. But these sorts of things tend to die, when they realize how many California contractors also donate to Republican candidates.

However, there is going to be way more push back on any attempts to gut the infrastructure bill, as all of those rural and red state Congressional members seem to have no problem at all with getting the bridge repair money they voted against.

Real turkeys, like the SOFI people mover (California's transit version of Alaska's "bridge to nowhere" project), that didn't make the funding cut in the House of Representative last session are in real trouble. And I expect no action on any additional funding the CAHSRA's runaway money train for the next two years. But I also don't expect to see Congress doing "claw backs" of funded projects with funding agreements and existing appropriations commitments.