Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was savagely booed Thursday during a news conference on California’s high-speed rail project at the Union Station in Los Angeles. The Donald Trump appointee blasted state authorities for mismanaging the once “exciting” project and claimed it had amounted to a waste of funds.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to make an announcement on the California High-Speed Rail when he stops in Los Angeles on Thursday.Senator Alex Padill

The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant, potentially threatening the viability of the troubled project.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the California high-speed rail project will continue to cost taxpayers billions of dollars with no definitive timeline for completion.

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that the Trump administration has launched a compliance review into California's high-speed rail project.

For too long, taxpayers have subsidized the massively over-budget and delayed California High-Speed Rail project,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in his announcement of the review on Thursday.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visited Los Angeles’ Union Station to make an announcement on funding for California high-speed rail.

A protest broke out at Union Station, as US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Trump administration will be investigating the high-speed rail construction in California.

The federal government plans to conduct a financial review into any federal funding earmarked for the California high-speed rail project, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Feb. 20at a press conference in Los Angeles' Union Station.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced a review of federal funding compliance for California's long-standing high-speed rail project

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Railroad Administration will begin a review of California High-Speed Rail Authority's compliance under FRA-administered grants.

Sean Duffy, the Secretary for the United States Department of Transportation, announced the compliance review of funding for the California High Speed Rail Project.