Protesters disrupted California conservatives as they were unveiling a new bill at a San Diego County press event that took place last week.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was met with boos on Thursday as dozens of protesters sounded off against possible cuts to a high-speed rail project in California.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was savagely booed Thursday during a news conference on California’s high-speed rail project at the Union Station in Los Angeles. The Donald Trump appointee blasted state authorities for mismanaging the once “exciting” project and claimed it had amounted to a waste of funds.

The Trump administration has launched a formal review of the California high-speed rail project, questioning the state's ability to complete the project and the allocation of federal funds.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has asked for a compliance review of California's controversial High Speed Rail project.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy put California's high speed rail project on notice Thursday, saying it is years overdue and billions over budget.

California voters in 2008 approved nearly $10 billion in bond money to build a high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco that was supposed to be running by 2020.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant, potentially threatening the viability of the troubled, controversial high-speed rail project.

Duffy, speaking at Union Station in Los Angeles on Thursday morning, said the Federal Railroad Administration will review the rail project and its leadership.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said the California high-speed rail project will continue to cost taxpayers billions of dollars with no definitive timeline for completion.

The Trump admin is putting a "disastrous" high-speed rail project in California on notice after it started almost two decades ago and has "no rail" being built.

The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the government would conduct a “compliance review” on a $3.1 billion grant, potentially threatening the viability of the troubled project.