State leaders are speaking out on California's High-Speed Rail system.

Taxpayer dollars have been going into this high-speed rail train project for over a decade, but now the project is estimated to cost over $120 billion.

California voters approved the high-speed rail project to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco in 2008, proposed then to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020, but that never happened.

Democratic Senator Dave Cortese, who also serves as the Senate transportation chair, said the project failed because they were not looking at private sector money, and now they know how important this investment is.

Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced that the cap-and-trade program would fund $1 billion into the project each year, but the Trump Administration just pulled $4 bill

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