The Trump administration said it would pull roughly $4 billion in federal funding for California’s long-planned high-speed train, a project that has, over decades, become an avatar for the country’s declining ability to complete transformative new infrastructure.

The Trump administration is signaling it intends to cut off federal funding for a long-delayed California high-speed rail project plagued by multibillion-dollar cost overruns.

California’s controversial rail project is about to lose federal funding, but powerful Democrats are doubling down on their support.