This is from Mass Transit. There was a link previously to CAHSR's own reply.

https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/press-release/55297296/chsra-chsra-responds-to-fra-disputes-administrations-core-findings

“There have been no meaningful changes in the past eight months that justify FRA’s dramatic about-face,” said Choudri. “Instead, the FRA has looked at essentially the same facts it considered in the fall of 2024 and simply reached a different conclusion. Hostility to public investments in high-speed rail and to California’s leadership—hostility that dates back to FRA’s initial attempt to revoke federal funding to the program in May 2019—appears to be the real basis for the proposed determination.”