After weeks of speculation, the Department Of Transportation is now redirecting $1.2 billion in high-speed rail money originally given to Ohio and Wisconsin to other parts of the country.

Both the incoming Republican governors of those states have been vocally opposed to rail projects there — because they don’t want their states to pay the additional costs to build HSR.

California, is now, the biggest benefactor of the deal. California officials said that the Obama administration will award the state another $624 million for high-speed rail there. So far, the state has been awarded more than $3.1 billion in federal funding this year towards the 800 mile rail line that will connect Sacramento and San Francisco to Los Angeles and San Diego. The total is estimated to cost $43 billion.

“This is yet another vote of confidence that California’s project is on the right track toward creating tens of thousands of jobs for our state and constructing the nation’s first true high-speed rail system,” said Roelof van Ark, CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority to Bloomberg.

Florida and Washington State are the other two big winners, receiving $342 million and $161 million each.

“I am pleased that so many other states are enthusiastic about the additional support they are receiving to help bring America’s high-speed rail network to life,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement accompanying the announcement.

Here’s a list of all the recipients:

California: $624 million
Florida: $342.3 million
Washington State: $161.5 million
Illinois: $42.3 million
New York: $7.3 million
Maine: $3.3 million
Massachusetts: $2.8 million
Vermont: $2.7 million
Missouri: $2.2 million
Wisconsin: $2 million for the Hiawatha line
Oregon: $1.6 million
North Carolina: $1.5 million
Iowa: $309,080
Indiana: $364,980

Around $8 billion was originally distributed around the country to promote high speed rail, though both Wisconsin governor-elect Scott Walker and Ohio governor-elect John Kasich had run on platforms to pull the plug on HSR in their respective states.

There had been several protests in the past couple of weeks to keep rail alive in Wisconsin, though Walker has decided to entirely kill the $810 million project that would have connected Milwaukee to Madison.

Governor-Elect Kasich wanted to reallocate the money to freight projects, but the money was only meant for passenger rail.

Ironically, study after study has proven that high speed rail can increase jobs, significantly reduce pollution by replacing the volume of short-haul flights, cut our dependence on oil, reduce congestion on our freeways, and encourage sustainable land-use and development patterns.

And yet, our short-sighted politicians refuse to see beyond the initial investment that is required to build HSR.