This will not cost the government any money. It will be done and paid by a university.
DNA may and will show the officials in 1865 were incorrect in there identification. In my research there were several questions.
1. Photographs were taken of John Wilkes Booth dead. There no where to be found.
2. The reports by the soldiers say one thing.
4. The autopsy says one thing. He got “hung” by a bullet. He did not say one thing. He died when he hit the floor.
5. The remains of John Wilkes Booth were later sent to Baltimore Maryland and ID by Mothere Booth and brother Edwin. A young girls was there and saw 2 boots in the box. Booth should have only had one boot. That was due to Dr. Mudd.
I have a saying. "Government never lies, people do."