did not require new high-speed trains to run on the new high-speed rail system. (11) The Department of Transportation inappropriately allowed the State of California to spend Federal money without a required State funding match. (12) The California High-Speed Rail Authority repeatedly failed to meet deadlines and underestimated costs. (13) On March 5, 2019, the Federal Rail Administration, having recognized the failure of California to build even a small fraction of the originally approved high-speed rail system, deobligated nearly $1 billion in Federal funding. (14) No passenger rail system in the world has ever been fully self-sufficient. (15) There are dozens of worthy infrastructure projects that would improve the quality of life for every day Americans and could easily have been designed, approved, built, and have benefitted local economies in the time it took for California’s high-speed rail proposal to fail. 3. Sense of Congress It is the Sense of Congress that any future high-speed rail grant programs that are awarded funds by the Federal Government should have similar or higher requirements than existing mass transit programs. 4. Treatment of funds provided for high-speed rail development in California (a) Reimbursement of funds The Secretary of Transportation shall take such action as is necessary to require that any discretionary grant funds provided to the State of California by the Department of Transportation for high-speed rail corridor development be reimbursed to the general fund of the Treasury. (b) Authorization of appropriations for nationally significant freight and highway projects Section 1101(a)(5)(E) of the FAST Act ( 23 U.S.C. 101 note) is amended by striking $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 and inserting $4,500,000,000 for fiscal year 2020 .