To coincide with Tax Week, White Coat Waste (WCW) has launched a national “WTF RFK?” ad campaign targeting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for continuing to fund Fauci-era animal labs. Our investigations have exposed how, under RFK, Jr., the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed and extended millions in funding for wasteful,...
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has exposed a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded lab at Cornell University that is abusing horses in cruel and wasteful miscarriage and aging experiments. Experimenters round up former racehorses, forcibly impregnate them, terminate their pregnancies, and dissect their embryos. Documents obtained by a WCW Freedom of Information...
White Coat Waste (WCW) just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD) to force the release of photos, videos, and other records about secretive U.S. military primate labs in Thailand, Peru, and the U.S., where hundreds of monkeys are subjected to wasteful and deadly taxpayer-funded experiments. The...
White Coat Waste is supporting an Alabama Open Records Act lawsuit by an Auburn University alum to force the school to release documents detailing its National Institutes of Health-funded kitten breeding and experimentation laboratory. WCW’s investigation, first launched in 2023, exposed how Auburn University breeds sick kittens to suffer from debilitating and deadly diseases,...
White Coat Waste is leading efforts with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to pass bipartisan legislation to retire animals from federal labs. The newly reintroduced Violet’s Law, named after a hound rescued by WCW from a taxpayer-funded lab, would require all federal agencies to enact policies...
We didn’t just get coverage — we redefined the issue. White Coat Waste made animal testing a bipartisan cause and a Trump White House priority. The New York Times explains how we did it. On March 12, 2026, The New York Times’ Sheryl Stolberg reports: “White Coat Waste … painted animal studies as government waste”...
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...
