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Sean Duffy: “It took 16 years and $15 billion in California high speed…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Debuts 'Get America Building Again' Program

Published | Video Starts at 04:28

We have our roads and bridges that are becoming too old and too dilapidated. It took us five years to build the Hoover Dam. Five years, four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge. It took 16 years and $15 billion in California high speed rail to not lay one track. Are you kidding me? That's, that's the American legacy. Right now. We, we can spend a lot of money and take a lot of time and not build projects. (04:28–04:36)

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Asserts that the California high-speed rail project took 16 years and $15 billion without laying any track.

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