When President Trump’s Department of Transportation announced Thursday that it had cut off $929 million in federal money previously slated for California’s high-speed rail project, it marked the beginning of the end for an 11-year-old fraud, originally committed against Californians and later against federal taxpayers as well.

Although special interests in the Golden State have already pocketed billions since this scam began, Trump’s move will at least help stop the bleeding. Instead of resisting, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, should welcome an opportunity to scrap the project and move on to his own priorities as governor, freed of the previous administration’s albatross.