Why is America not investing in a bullet train infrastructure between major cities?

Answered

It would provide so many jobs, the trains can almost match airplanes in terms of how long it takes to get somewhere (especially in the shorter to middle-distance range), you can transport more people with little effort as well

Edit - well thanks people. Many interesting answers, many very defensive. Still got a lot of interesting insights. Cheers!

Edit - realizing that I come off as a twat here and there. My bad. I get into that devil's advocate role sometimes and get carried away. Fair point for calling that out. Enjoy your day people

Last edit - I'll try to summarize the most heard points I've gathered. Thanks for answering with such enthusiasm. Apparently it's a dream for some and a waste of money for others.

Anwers:

koch brothers, lobby etc.
not profitable
not just bikes (YouTube channel): American cities are too car centric. Even if public transit happens, it will not have a follow up that is easily accessible without a car.
America is big.
it's possible but Americans rather spend money on things that will benefit personal freedom. Tax money spent on projects like infrastructure
planes are cheaper and faster
there are some initiatives already with many many hiccups
Republicans are blocking it
government has different priorities

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Federal agents searched the Virginia home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark Wednesday , June 22, 2022. This happened at roughly the same time that federal agents were delivering subpoenas and taking other investigative steps around the country.

Norm Eisen at Brookings tweeted:

"[Why raid] Trump's coup lawyer Jeffrey Clark? It's all in our big @BrookingsGov report on Trump & accomplices. Clark's liability is under 18 USC 371, conspiracy to defraud, see sections [beginning] @ pp. 2, 22 & 40"

An overview of the report is here. You can download the full report (links directly to PDF) here.

2018:
Clark arrived at Trump’s Justice Department in 2018 to head an office that enforces environmental laws and regulations, and then in September 2020 became acting head of the department’s civil division.

December 2020:
AG Bill Barr resigns because he can't convince Trump the election wasn't stolen. Barr is replaced by Deputy AG Rosen. Trump immediately began calling Acting AG Rosen nearly every day claiming voter fraud or improper vote counts, demanding to know what the Justice Department was doing about it.

Rosen told Trump that the Justice Department could not “flip a switch and change the election,” according to notes of the conversation cited by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“I don’t expect you to do that,” Trump responded, according to the notes. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.” The president urged Rosen to “just have a press onference.”

Shortly before Christmas, Jeffrey Clark and Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), one of the earliest proponents of Trump’s voter fraud claims met. Perry told radio station WITF that “when President Trump asked if I would make an introduction, I obliged.”

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Clark, violating a Justice Department rule banning contact between Justice Department officials and the White House except through proper channels, met with Trump in the Oval Office.

When Rosen found out Clark had talked privately with Trump, he was livid, telling Clark in a December 26 phone call that, “You didn’t tell me about it in advance. You didn’t get authorization. You didn’t tell me about it after the fact. This can’t happen,” according to Rosen’s interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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On Dec. 28, 2020, Kenneth Klukowski, legal counsel to the civil division overseen by Clark, sent an email to Clark with an attached letter, titled “Pre-Decisional & Deliberative/Attorney-Client or Legal Work Product – Georgia Proof of Concept.”

The draft letter, intended for officials in Georgia, said the Justice Department had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the State of Georgia” and recommended that the state legislature “convene in special session” to suspend its certification of the 2020 election results pending a DOJ investigation into nonexistent fraud, and consider approving a new slate of elections.

Twenty minutes later, Clark sent acting AG Rosen and acting deputy AG Richard Donoghue the letter, with a place for the letter to be signed by Rosen, Donoghue and Clark.

“I set it up for signature by the three of us,” Clark wrote. “I think we should get it out as soon as possible.”

“There’s no chance I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this,” Donoghue emailed Clark on the afternoon of Dec. 28, 2020.

January 3, 2021

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“I don’t get to be fired by someone who works for me,” Rosen said he told Clark. Rosen then called and asked to meet with Trump.

A meeting in the Oval Office was quickly arranged with Clark, Rosen, and other Justice Department and White House lawyers. Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue was watching television coverage about news that Trump had pressured Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to find enough votes to win the state. A White House official emerged and said, “The president wants you in this meeting.”

Around the time Donoghue entered, Clark was telling Trump that if he became attorney general he would “conduct real investigations that would, in his view, uncover widespread fraud,” Donoghue said in his House deposition. Clark vowed to send the letter he drafted to Georgia and other states and said that “this was a last opportunity to sort of set things straight with this defective election, and that he could do it, and he had the intelligence and the will and the desire to pursue these matters in the way that the president thought most appropriate.”

Trump continually circled back to the idea of replacing Rosen with Clark. “Well, suppose I do this,” Trump said to Donoghue. “Suppose I replace [Rosen] with [Clark], what would you do?”

“Sir, I would resign immediately. There is no way I’m serving one minute under this guy.” Donoghue told the committee last year. "You should understand that your entire department leadership will resign. Every [assistant attorney general] will resign. ... Mr. President, these aren’t bureaucratic leftovers from another administration. You picked them. This is your leadership team. You sent every one of them to the Senate; you got them confirmed. What is that going to say about you, when we all walk out at the same time? (...) "Jeff Clark will be leading a graveyard."

Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, told Trump that Clark’s proposed letter was “a murder-suicide pact,” according to Donoghue’s deposition. “It’s going to damage everyone who touches it. And we should have nothing to do with that letter. I don’t ever want to see that letter again.”

Trump backed down.

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