Budget cuts for CDC?

The White House’s proposed budget could spell bad news for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control – early reports state that its funding could be cut by 12%, which is nearly $1 billion.  More bad news for the agency, which recently suffered a blow when Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigned following the revelation that she had purchased tobacco stocks.  The budget is far from finalized, but the proposed steep cuts for the U.S.’s largest Georgia-based agency has the CDC ship DRIFTING…