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A new CDC lab will cost up to $480 million:
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it needs to replace its aging high containment lab, which handles some of the world's most dangerous contagions.
The project would cost $350 million to build. But over three years, the total budget could reach $480 million, also funding campus infrastructure improvements, such as extending utility tunnels to support the new lab. The CDC is in the early stages of asking Congress for the funds.
In its current "high containment lab" (HCL), the CDC develops and performs diagnostic tests for the deadliest disease threats, including emerging influenza viruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and Lassa fever.
[...] Without investment, the CDC's current lab will be left with only a fraction of its current research space and the agency will fall behind in protecting, defending and responding to infectious disease threats. In the next few years, it faces a risk of an unplanned and potentially catastrophic shutdown.
Meanwhile, a CDC employee has been missing since he called in sick from work.
Also at Time.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:14AM (2 children)
They're not ALLOWED to put money aside from year to year for things like this. If they have money left over, they just get their budget cut. When their bufget is approved, it is approved for actual expenses only.
(Score: 1) by GreatOutdoors on Tuesday February 27 2018, @12:59AM
You don't see a line item for every building built by every government entity every year, so apparently they do have the ability to build and buy things they need if they plan it appropriately.
Yes, I did make a logical argument there. You should post a logical response.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @09:29AM
If that is right, they need to ASAP acquire a large pile of gold bars.