Newsom Says California High-Speed Rail Is Moving Forward as Texas Halts Its Project

Gov. Gavin Newsom is using that pitch to defend California’s high-speed rail, even as critics call it a money pit and as Texas’ Dallas–Houston bullet train just had tens of millions in federal funding pulled. Newsom’s message to Texas: you hit pause, we kept building — and we’re finally past the hardest part, “finishing the job” instead of walking away.