The U.S. Transportation Department announced it was pulling back $4 billion in funding for the project, weeks after signaling it would do so.

President Donald Trump is pulling federal funding for one of California’s most ambitious—and controversial—projects as his feud with the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, rages on. Trump announced that he had “officially freed” American taxpayers from funding the state’s long-planned high-speed train,

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has formally terminated $4 billion in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, weeks after putting the bullet train project on notice.