Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and legislative leaders agreed this week to authorize billions of dollars for a high-speed rail project that has become the object of intense criticism from the Trump administration.

After President Donald Trump pulled $4 billion in federal funding from the “bullet train” in July, a move that threatened to grind the development to a halt, the project’s chief executive announced Thursday the Newsom administration has crafted a deal to keep it alive. The agreement, expected to be passed in a final vote on Saturday, would allocate $20 billion to the project, with $1 billion going toward construction annually over the next 20 years, according to High Speed Rail Authority Chief Executive Ian Choudri.

“This agreement demonstrates that Californians are standing up

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