Spearheaded by The Northeast Maglev, the project has backing so far from U.S. and Japanese investors and boasts a high-powered advisory board that is headed by former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and includes former Transportation Department secretaries from Republican and Democratic administrations — Mary Peters and Rodney Slater — as well as former Govs. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania and Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey.
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Wayne Rogers, TNEM’s chairman and former head of Maryland’s Democratic Party, said the line will be as expensive as it is transformative and acknowledged that it will need a lot of federal support.
As long as there's profit for the grifters, federal money is justified.