UPDATE: January 2025 – Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

• Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting wasteful government animal tests exposed by White Coat Waste (WCW)
• The pair tweeted out examples of waste to cut including the Kremlin’s cat lab, Fauci’s Monkey Island, meth head monkeys, hamster fight club, and other taxpayer-funded programs uncovered by WCW
• Some of the stupid spending they’re calling out includes boondoggles that WCW exposed with Senator Rand Paul in his Festivus waste reports
• DOGE can save $20 billion in tax money and millions of animals by cutting the F.A.T.: federal animal testing

Good news: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Department of Government Efficiency is targeting wasteful government animal tests exposed by White Coat Waste!

Referencing National Institutes of Health-funded animal labs first exposed by WCW and Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), Elon and Vivek tweeted that projects like the Kremlin’s cat lab, Monkey Island, hamster fight club, and meth head monkeys belong on the chopping block. 

Some of the stupid NIH spending being called out includes boondoggles that WCW exposed with Sen. Paul in his Festivus waste reports in 2022 and 2023 including:

• $770,000 to a Kremlin-run animal lab that damaged cats’ brains and forced them to run on treadmills
• Tens of millions to fund, first under Fauci’s approval, Monkey Island, where the NIH breeds and stockpiles 3,300 monkeys for experiments with COVID and other viruses
• $3.6M to get monkeys hooked on cocaine and force them to gamble
• $5.2M to inject beagle puppies with cocaine
• $3M to breed aggressive hamsters, drill into their skulls, and force them to fight in videotaped cage matches

More recently, WCW has exposed millions more in ongoing wasteful government spending that should also end up in the litterbox of history, including:

• $2M+ in NIH funding for dog testing in China and other Chinese animal labs tied to the PLA and CCP
• $1.5M in NIH funding for motion sickness experiments where kittens are spun around to make them nauseous
• $10M in DOD funding for constipation experiments where cats have marbles shoved up their butts and are electro-shocked (DOD)
• EPA tests that force mice to inhale gun smoke from pistols and rifles

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!

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Thank you @SenRandPaul for helping us expose & end WASTEFUL gov’t spending like #CokeHounds! #StopTheMadness pic.twitter.com/b92v3Vo2x7

— White Coat Waste Project ????????️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) December 21, 2022

Government animal testing is a $20 billion boondoggle and we’re proud that Vivek and Elon are targeting stupid spending that we first exposed.

As our president and founder discussed in a new op-ed, Ramaswamy tweeted this month that, “Animal cruelty will eventually become a genuine concern for conservatives. It’s already happening. Count me in.” He followed up with, “Shouldn’t be a partisan issue to end animal cruelty.” Musk has amplified WCW investigations of Fauci’s beagle tests and NIH bat virus labs, and criticized Fauci’s funding of gain-of-function at the Wuhan animal lab.

A growing majority of taxpayers—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike—oppose Uncle Sam’s wasteful, dangerous, and cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and they shouldn’t be forced to foot the bill.

DOGE can save billions of tax dollars and millions of animals by cutting the F.A.T.: federal animal testing.