I suppose this is too expensive for the Republicans and we can't fund it?

That’s a great plan, but according to Republicans competence is communism.
Apparently democracy is going through life ignoring everything except money, at least according to conservative standards, and they appreciate nothing else including human life.

Better to develop the vaccines and not need them, than to need them and not have them. Stopping nations from doing this type of research has a statistical likelihood on the order of asking a dog not to kill squirrels.