U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Thursday he would launch a compliance review of the $4 billion in federal funds allocated to California’s high-speed rail project — the ambitious, but long-delayed plan to send bullet trains from Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco.

Duffy, speaking at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, said the Federal Railroad Administration will review the rail project and its leadership — and assess progress on the

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that the Trump administration has launched a compliance review into California's high-speed rail project.

While U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy questioned the cross-state high-speed rail project, he praised the Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles effort.

As President Donald Trump’s administration makes cuts to government programs, his head of the Department of Transportation announced that federal assistance intended for a major California

This comes after President Donald Trump criticized the project, vowing to investigate what he called the "worst managed project" he's ever seen.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the project will continue to cost taxpayers billions of dollars with no definitive timeline for completion.

The Trump administration said Thursday it is opening a review into whether to rescind about $4 billion awarded to California's High-Speed Rail project. Voters approved $10 billion for the high speed rail project in 2008 but the costs have risen sharply and President Donald Trump has sharply criticized the effort.