Senator Ernst exposes a failure of $ 162 billion in hidden infrastructure overruns, Biden Admin has remained silent

More than a dozen federal infrastructure projects are greater than the budget of at least $ 162 billion in total, according to a new report by the Senate Doge Caucus, whose president said that it took the secretary of Dot Sean Duffy to help discover the data that the Biden administration did not make public.

The president of the Senate Doge Caucus, Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, shared with Fox News Digital its report which uses the high speed rail project of California in California as a Bondoggle reference and established details on each federal infrastructure project which is also more than a billion dollars on the budget, five years after the dead or the two.

“Going a billion dollars on the budget is not a rounding error; it is a financial train wreck,” Ernst told Fox News Digital.

The Caucus report said that the accumulated figure of $ 162.9 billion on the budget for all the projects listed is probably a “floor” if more data in the data were to be carried out.

“I am delighted to have worked with the Trump administration to finance California Crazy Train, but it is now time for these other boondogles to meet the same fate,” continued Ernst. “Including only five of them outside the rails projects in the future lines of the line would save billions of more taxpayers than the first termination package.”

“Being five years late is not only wasting time-it’s a full derailment,” she said.

Ernst and Mariannete Milian-Meeks representativeR -Iwa., Also presented the Billion Doll Bondoggle Act, which is planned for a vote of the Committee this week and would oblige each federal agency to report on seriously delayed projects or on the budget.

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In a case, involving an operation for an extension of the 14 -mile light train, it has been langui for years and has doubled its price at $ 2.74 billion.

Nicknamed the “Public Costlire Works Project (in Minnesota) State History”, the project was defended by representative Ilhan Omar, D-minn., As crucial for the community given the “Fallout of George Floyd’s Murder” in 2020.

“This project will help us get back on your feet,” Omar said in a press release at the time.

Another railway project in Honolulu demands that an additional $ 9.9 billion be completed, according to the report, which also cites this figure about half of the average annual budget of the entire Hawaii state.

The railway line, which, according to the report, has been timed with slower traffic than peak hours, is also about $ 4.5 billion compared to the budget.

The jewel of the over -budget project crown and behind the projects cited in the report is the high -speed train from California – a company that has lasted several governor administrations.

The project of around 800 miles was launched during the Obama administration, in which the DOGE report noted that the State requested federal funding before the preliminary process – in order to qualify for the Sunzting Obama -Erey, according to a letter of 2018 from the office of the state auditor included in the document.

High -speed rail is not the only expensive California boondoggy

The federal government has approved about 7 billion dollars, about half of which remains unprecedented, while the entire project should now cost $ 128 billion; A surpassing of $ 95 billion.

Separated from the project on a state scale, the report includes a photo of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.Signing its name on a concrete wall to what is supposed to be an extension of the Caltrain system in San Francisco.

“It is about saving the planet. These are pure air. These are air quality. It is the quality of life, the quality of people who should not be in their cars for long stays by adding to pollution, but nevertheless go and work faster”, ” Pelosi said.

The report indicates that the project less than 2 miles should be one of the most expensive scales in the world.

This $ 8 billion project would connect the future high -speed state -of -the -art rail system, Caltrain and the local rail via a tunnel between the Salesforce Center and the end of the current Caltrain line south of the business district.

The other project would extend the Bart system south of its current end near SFO, passing Norman Y. Mineta International Airport to San Jose, before bending north on the other side of the bay in order to serve Silicon Valley and end in Berryessa, California.

Ernst’s report noted that Pelosi tried to insert a separate game from nine figures for the Silicon Valley project in the COVVI-19 rescue bill, but was postponed by the Senate parliamentarian.

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The high-speed “boondoggy” of California will one day cross this bridge over the CA-99 in Fresno. (Reuters)

Other less projects listed in the report, even more for reasons of delay, include one in its own state of Iowa, where the interstate 80 and the interstate 29 briefly converge in the council cliffs before the former crossed the Missouri river in Omaha, in Nebraska.

On the east coast, the project to unravel the exchange between “42 Freeway” of New Jersey, the Interstate 295 and the Walt Whitman bridge in Philadelphia, has been listed as several years.

This project, which consists of several related contracts, began in 2013 and, although supervised by Trenton, received more than a billion dollars in federal funds, according to the Doge report.

Inside the Beltway, the Federals contributed to several billion billions of “Purple Line” suburban projects in Maryland, which found themselves on duel policy and other questions.

In addition, Duffy told Fox News Digital that he had fully approved the efforts of the Senate Doge.

“If you receive taxpayers’ dollars, you must expect to be held responsible by the American people,” said the secretary.

“More boondoggles – Thank you Senator Ernst for your leadership in Congress to make sure that federal dollars are used efficiently and efficiently.”