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Trump regime declares war on rail: Budget would eviscerate Amtrak, light rail funding

Pas­sen­ger rail ser­vice in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca is now offi­cial­ly under an unprece­dent­ed assault fol­low­ing the release of neo­fas­cist Don­ald Trump’s regime’s “bud­get blue­print”, which pro­pos­es gut­ting most of what’s left of Amtrak’s nation­al net­work of inter­ci­ty rail routes and yank­ing away fund­ing promised to regions like ours for the expan­sion of badly […]