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President Trump Wants $2.5 Billion In Federal Grants BACK From Californa After Gov Joins Lawsuit Challenging Border Wall

Emily Zanotti

If you won’t support the Trump Administration’s agenda, perhaps you don’t need the Trump Administration’s money — at least, that’s what California Governor Gavin Newsom is finding out the hard way Wednesday, after the president threatened to revoke a more than $2.5 billion grant for California’s abortive “high speed rail” project over Newsom’s opposition to Trump’s anti-illegal immigration efforts.

President Donald Trump took aim at Newsom Wednesday morning, threatening to force California to repay a multi-billion federal government grant that the state used to finance a “high speed rail” project connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco that Newsom now says will never be completed.

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