Public projects typically aren’t known for coming in on time and under budget. A report released last month highlights the extent to which delays and overruns are costing American taxpayers.

According to the Senate DOGE Caucus, more than a dozen federal infrastructure projects have bled a combined $162 billion. Fox News reports that this includes projects which are “either more than $1 billion over budget, five years past deadline or both.”

At the top of the list is California’s bullet train fiasco. Approved by voters hoodwinked by false cost estimates, the project was supposed to be operable by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. To date, not a single mile of track has been completed and the price tag has soared to $180 billion, by some estimates.

The feds have contributed $7 billion to thi

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