DOGE certainly has high-speed rail in its crosshairs. Before DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a run for governor of Ohio, he called high-speed rail “a wasteful vanity project, burning billions in taxpayer cash, with little prospect for completion in the next decade… Time to end the waste.”

Pittsburghers should set their sights on high-speed rail zooming out of the Steel City, said Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Deluzio.Why it matters: The U.S. has long lagged behind other countries on high-speed rail,