This highlights a really common problem with many administrations -- where funding is brought down to a level where you can 'operate' the public good, but at be

This highlights a really common problem with many administrations -- where funding is brought down to a level where you can 'operate' the public good, but at best it's brittle and at worst it's actively damaging the people its meant to serve. Once the brittle thing is broken, this is used as an example of why government fails or why we shouldn't fund public goods. The American idea of social/public housing is a poster child for this, but you are seeing it with the CDC today as well.