Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, told Newsmax Wednesday that she will reveal several “billion-dollar boondoggles” in a report she is releasing on transportation projects across the United States that have gone off track, such as the California high-speed railroad project that President Donald Trump cut funds from earlier this summer.

“That California crazy gravy train, it is totally off the rails,” Ernst told “Wake Up America.” “It is way, way past the time of completion, and with that $100 billion that they are over budget, not even a single rail has been laid on that project.”

Trump announced in June that $4 billion in federal funds would be cut from the project after a Transportation Department report from the Federal Railroad Administration cited a pattern of missed deadlines, budget shortfalls, and questionable ridership projections.

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