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Publish Date : 22-Nov-2016

Reversing its plans to procure foreign parts for its trains, the California High Speed Rail Authority has said in a letter to federal regulators that it was withdrawing a request for a waiver from the Buy American Act.

The change followed Rep. John Garamendi (D-Fairfield) and other Democratic legislators' outrage over the plan, to import the key parrts of future rail cars, including motors, brakes, wheels, axles, the aluminum shells and undercarriages.

The reversal comes amid increasing political uncertainty about the fortunes of the $64-billion construction of a bullet train from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

The loss of the White House has given Republican opponents of the project a stronger hand to end it, though nobody is sure about President-elect Donald Trump thoughts's about the project, according to Republican staff in Congress.

In letters to the Federal Railroad Administration, the rail authority had said the parts could not be manufactured in America U.S. or would cost more if they were.

That argument crashed into opposition from unions and legislators who have spent their careers trying to force public agencies to buy their goods from factories that generate American jobs.

Garamendi said, "The argument that I got from the high-speed rail authority was that it couldnt be built in the United States, and the reply I gave started out with [an impolite term for rubbish] and went on from there. The policy of the authority, must be that this rail system will be built in the U.S."

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