California Governor Jerry Brown invited President Donald Trump to visit the state’s ongoing bullet train construction projects.
On Tuesday, Pres. Trump is going to San Diego to inspect eight border-wall prototypes. The President will also deliver a speech at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. He is also scheduled to attend a Republican fundraiser at Beverly Hills.
In his invitation letter, the governor asked the President to visit the Central Valley after examining the wall prototypes. He said, “You see, in California we are focusing in bridges, not walls. And that’s more than a figure of speech.”
Gov. Brown told Pres. Trump that the state is building more than a dozen bridges and viaducts for the first high-speed rail line in the country. He emphasized that California is “already putting 1,700 Americans to work.”
The governor noted that the President lamented that the United States doesn’t have a fast train. He wrote, “Well, Mr. President, in California we are trying to fix that. We have a world-class train system under construction.”
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Additionally, Gov. Brown said previous Presidents including George W. Bush, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson recognized the importance of California.
