Employees at the lead consulting firm for the struggling California bullet train project were told to “shut up” and threatened with termination if they talked about the costly infrastructure project, according to a report this week. “I was told to shut up and not say anything,” Mark Styles, who worked for WSP, told the Los Angeles Times. President Trump has labeled the entire high-speed rail project a “disaster” and called for Sacramento to return the funds given to the state by the federal government. “California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars,” Trump tweeted in February. Whole project is a ‘green’ disaster!”Brian Kelly, chief executive of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, told the Times that the agency “takes seriously any claim of wrongdoing by an employee or contractor.

Source: Fox News March 12, 2020 15:33 UTC