A March 12, 2026, feature in The New York Times highlighted how White Coat Waste’s groundbreaking investigations and campaigns — which have exposed billions in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments — have made animal testing a priority for Republicans and the Trump administration. NYT’s Sheryl Stolberg writes, “White Coat Waste…painted animal studies as government waste” and...
White Coat Waste (WCW) testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Sunshine Week: Bringing Secret Government Spending to Light” hearing. WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman explained how government transparency tools, like the Freedom of Information Act and federal spending databases, have helped expose and end taxpayer-funded animal tests like...
A White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals how taxpayer dollars are still being funneled to an abusive puppy mill that breeds beagles for painful and deadly experiments. Documents obtained by WCW show puppies purchased with tax dollars from the disgraced Ridglan Farms are being tortured in tests funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that the taxpayer-funded University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) torments cats in barbaric experiments, and even egregiously obtained cats from an animal shelter to abuse as blood donors by draining dangerous amounts of blood. New records obtained by WCW expose National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at...
White Coat Waste (WCW) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) have joined forces and filed formal complaints with Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte Moring, documenting Pentagon-funded animal labs that failed to publicly disclose their taxpayer funding as required under Sen. Ernst’s 2021 federal law, the COST Act. Read WCW’s complaint and Sen. Ernst’s letter to...
White Coat Waste’s (WCW) latest investigation has exposed a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab at the University of Chicago that is deliberately inducing the “most severe stroke” in dogs before killing them. Documents obtained by WCW reveal that helpless dogs “at risk of … significant suffering” have their arteries intentionally blocked to cut...
Senator James Lankford’s (R-OK) new Federal Fumbles report highlights hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments exposed and ended by White Coat Waste (WCW). Lankford features WCW’s viral investigation that eliminated National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for disturbing transgender animal tests, in which mice, rats, and monkeys were subjected to...
Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments. Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out...
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, WCW recently followed the NIH money to Canadian cat labs at the University of Sherbrooke and...
