The facility’s budget cuts have buoyed opponents of the project, the cost of which is now expected to climb to over $1 billion. The Obama administration’s 2013 budget, released earlier this month, eliminated funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility being built in Manhattan, Kan.
NBAF, as it’s known, is a high-security lab designed to research foreign and zoonotic animal diseases.
