• Citing White Coat Waste Project investigations, 11 lawmakers are demanding the immediate suspension of all ongoing dog and cat experiments approved under Dr. Fauci, stating “We are alarmed by NIAID’s obfuscation and wasteful spending on unnecessary dog and cat research.”
• Newly-released records obtained via a WCW Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show Fauci funded an ongoing $4 million project that poisons beagle puppies in “maximum tolerated dose” tests for experimental drugs.
• The Congressional letter mentions how WCW uncovered many wasteful and painful dog and cat experiments Fauci approved are still underway and being funded with our tax dollars, including COVID experiments on cats, biting fly experiments on abandoned pet hounds, and maximum pain tick experiments on beagle puppies.
• The NIH’s 2025 spending bill includes WCW-backed language mandating an NIH report on efforts to cut cat and dog tests and we’re working to pass the bipartisan PAAW Act to permanently defund all of the NIH’s painful dog and cat testing.

For years, White Coat Waste Project’s viral #BeagleGate campaign has exposed how Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), bankrolled heinous beagle experiments in labs across the globe and that he and NIAID repeatedly lied to the public about it.

This summer, Fauci finally admitted to Congress that he personally signed off on this canine cruelty.

Our investigations have unearthed many wasteful and painful dog and cat experiments he approved are still underway and being funded with our tax dollars.

This includes ongoing COVID experiments on cats, biting fly experiments on abandoned pet hounds, and maximum pain tick experiments on beagle puppies. 

This graphic details Fauci’s deadly COVID experiments on cats that have wasted over $1.2 million and are scheduled to run through 2025

Now, lawmakers are calling on Fauci’s successor, NIAID Director Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, to suspend funding for all of the experiments on pets that Fauci approved.

In a new letter to Marrazzo led by Congressman Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, eleven Congressmembers write: 

“we request that all active NIAID funding for dog and cat research be immediately suspended until NIAID has reviewed dog and cat research approved by Dr. Fauci to identify and eliminate spending on unnecessary projects before any more taxpayer money and animals’ lives are wasted” 

The letter cites numerous WCW investigations exposing ongoing Fauci-funded dog and cat testing and our successful efforts to halt NIAID’s misguided plans to test a runny nose drug on puppies and re-start discredited kitten experiments. NIAID experimenters admitted both projects were needless and canceled them before they started, but only after WCW investigations and subsequent pressure from Congress.

Rep. Gosar and his colleagues write that, “Dr. Fauci and NIAID researchers he funded have admitted that some of their cruel dog and cat research is wasteful and unnecessary” and that, “We are alarmed by NIAID’s obfuscation and wasteful spending on unnecessary dog and cat research.”

NEW FOIA docs obtained by @WhiteCoatWaste show Fauci funded a $3.7 million project to poison puppies with experimental drugs.

Now, Republicans led by @RepGosar are demanding a suspension to the funding in a letter to the NIAID: pic.twitter.com/tBQxqR1nTQ

— Eireann (Erin) Van Natta🇺🇸 (@evannatta1776) September 24, 2024

The letter was co-signed by Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Clay Higgins (R-LA), Aaron Bean (R-FL), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Greg Steube (R-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Randy Weber (R-TX). 

Among the examples of unnecessary Fauci-funded dog experiments included in their letter is a $4 million contract for experimental drug toxicity testing on dogs by the same shady contractor that Fauci paid to cut out 44 puppies’ vocal cords so they couldn’t bark or cry out while they were poisoned in needless drug tests.

A contract exposed by a WCW FOIA lawsuit shows that NIAID is currently wasting over $4 million for experimental drug tests on puppies

The active contract uncovered by WCW through a successful Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against NIAID shows that Fauci approved the funding of “maximum tolerated dose” tests and other toxicity tests on beagles in which puppies will be injected with increasingly large amounts of experimental drugs to see what dose causes them to become sick and die.

In their letter, the lawmakers call this dog testing “repulsive.”

Documents obtained via a WCW FOIA lawsuit show that NIAID is currently wasting over $4 million for painful “maximum tolerated dose” experiments on and other drug tests on puppies

Fauci funded this project even though the Food and Drug Administration states, “The FDA does not mandate that human drugs be studied in dogs.”

In 2021, we obtained these documents showing how Fauci paid for puppies to have their vocal cords cut out and be poisoned with experimental drugs.

We’re continuing to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to end all Fauci-funded pet abuse, including passing the bipartisan PAAW Act to permanently defund all painful dog and cat testing across the NIH. We also secured language in the NIH’s 2025 spending bill mandating an NIH report on efforts to cut cat and dog tests.