re: #469 Dark_Falcon

How much money have Republicans cut? From what areas of Amtrak’s funding requests have those funds been cut? Start with those two questions, and we’ll try to work through this.

Rep John Mica (R-FL) calls Amtrak a “soviet style operation”. Idiot. This is why so many loathe your party.

“Republicans have long looked to Amtrak as a focus of its efforts to cut domestic spending broadly, and many see cutting funding for the train system as a bid to privatize it. On Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the New York-bound train crashed, the Republican-led House Appropriations Committee voted to reduce grants to Amtrak by $252 million — a drop of about 15% from last year’s level.”

cnn.com