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The situation has been difficult for Morales Reyes and his relatives.“He’s a family man. This has been extremely stressful on him,” said Oulahan. “He’s very worried.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration signaled Wednesday that it intends to cut off federal funding for a long-delayed California high-speed rail project plagued by multibillion-dollar, following the release of a scathing federal report that concluded there is “no viable path” to complete even a partial section of the line.Voters first authorized $10 billion in borrowed funds in 2008 to cover about a third of the estimated cost, with a promise the train would be up and running by 2020. Five years beyond that deadline, no tracks have been laid and its estimated price tag has ballooned to over $100 billion.

In a letter to the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which oversees the project, Federal Railroad Administration acting Administrator Drew Feeley wrote that what was envisioned as an 800-mile system connecting the state’s major cities has been reduced to a blueprint for “a 119-mile track to nowhere.”, the California agency “has conned the taxpayer ... with no viable plan to deliver even that partial segment on time,”

State officials defended what’s known as the nation’s largest infrastructure project and said they remain committed to construction, though it’s not clear what funding would replace the federal support if it’s withdrawn. Feeley noted the FRA could seek repayment of the federal funds but is not proposing to claw back those dollars at this time.

Carol Dahmen, the state authority’s chief of strategic communications, said in a statement that the federal conclusions are misguided and “do not reflect the substantial progress made to deliver high-speed rail in California.”But government attorneys told the judge that the Trump administration has no plans to apply the executive order to the FEC.

The judge said he can’t conclude from the text of the executive order alone that Trump orare on the verge of taking such an “extraordinary step.” The order doesn’t single out the FEC and applies broadly to all executive branch employees, the judge concluded.

“The Court does not doubt that the committees would have cause for profound concern were the FEC’s independence to be compromised,” he wrote. “Given the FEC’s central role in overseeing parties and campaigns, a compromise of its independence would pose an immense threat to our democratic elections, for all the reasons Congress established the FEC’s independence in the first place.”The portion of the executive order challenged by the lawsuit has raised particular concern among campaign finance watchdogs, who call it a conflict of interest. Congress created the FEC in 1974 after