US Department of Transportation

Checkmate at the Border, Stalemate in Sacramento

September 5, 2026 12:00 pmSeptember 6, 2026 8:43 am

Eighty-five degrees in the shade, dust on the windshield, and an eighteen-wheeler rolling through Arizona’s Yuma Sector like any other Tuesday. Between August 10 and 14, federal agents pulled 95 truck drivers off that stretch of interstate. Every single one...

McCarthy Wants CA High-Speed Rail Funding Repurposed For Water Storage Projects

March 20, 2019 6:15 amMarch 25, 2019 1:13 pm

Republican California Congressman Kevin McCarthy has fired the next volley in the war over the 3.5 billion in federal funds meant for the state’s troubled high speed rail project. McCarthy (R-CA), Congressional Representative for most of Kern, Tulare and Northeast...