• White Coat Waste (WCW) —with rescued lab beagles in tow—co-hosted a Congressional briefing with Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Dina Titus (D-NV) to highlight progress to protect pets and tax dollars from wasteful government experiments
• At the event, Reps. Malliotakis and Titus announced that they’ve called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit of taxpayer funding for dog and cat testing
• WCW presented new research showing that 85% of taxpayers oppose the government’s painful pet experiments and that the practice could be eliminated within a decade or sooner
• WCW met one-on-one with lawmakers to discuss how the Congress, incoming Administration, and DOGE can save animals and taxpayer dollars

“We should ask @realDonaldTrump to ban testing on domestic animals like dogs & cats”

Thanks @marc_lotter @SharlaMcBride @AlisonMaloni @NEWSMAX for covering our Capitol Hill meetings with lab survivor Uno & @SenRandPaul @RepNancyMace @RepGosar @RepLaurelLee @RepDavidValadao pic.twitter.com/ydbrWqaRdn

— White Coat Waste Project 🥼🗑️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) December 19, 2024

Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) have recently highlighted some of the wasteful dog and cat experiments exposed by WCW—like cocaine tests on puppies and Russian cat labs—as prime candidates for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chopping block.  These are spending cuts everyone can support!

On December 11, WCW hosted a Capitol Hill briefing in conjunction with Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Dina Titus (D-NV) about the historic progress we’ve made to eliminate dog and cat experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs and making to cut billions in wasteful domestic and foreign spending on dog and cat experiments funded by agencies like the Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health.

At the briefing, Rep. Malliotakis discussed her bipartisan work with WCW to stop cruel experiments on dogs and cats and announced she and Rep. Titus just fired off a letter with 11 bipartisan colleagues citing WCW investigations and directing the Government Accountability Office to conduct an investigation and audit of taxpayer funding for testing on pets.

WCW scientific adviser Dr. Stacy Lopresti-Goodman, a Marymount University professor who studies the harms of experimentation and lab confinement on dogs, presented her new research based on data collected with WCW investigators showing significant reductions in the use of dogs and cats in experiments and predicting that the practice could end within a decade. She told lawmakers it could end even sooner if they pass WCW-backed legislation to defund the practice.

We were also joined by Uno, the very first dog our friends at Kindness Ranch rescued from Envigo, the disgraced puppy mill that WCW exposed for selling dogs to the National Institutes of Health’s cruel septic shock lab and other labs funded by Dr. Fauci. John Ramer, the executive director of the Kindness Ranch, discussed his industry-leading work with WCW and taxpayer-funded laboratories across the country to retire and adopt out thousands of dogs and cats.

Listen to U.S. Representive Nicole Malliotakis on her view of a lack of transparency with the federal government on animal experiments.

A letter arriving at the U.S. Government Accountability Office penned by Congresswoman Dina Titus @repdinatitus & Congresswoman Nicole… pic.twitter.com/h2WxDO2PZy

— Scott Taylor (@ScottTaylorTV) December 11, 2024

Our other special four-legged guests were lab survivors Nellie and Beesly, who were rescued by WCW adviser Lauren Kellogg from Envigo, and another a laboratory that tested drugs and chemicals on dogs for federal agencies.

I had one of the best meetings ever this afternoon, spending it with Uno, a beagle rescued from one of Mr. Fauci’s evil science labs.

Thank you to @WhiteCoatWaste for the work you are doing to end the abuse of innocent puppies in the name of “science.”

Uno agrees, Mr. Fauci… pic.twitter.com/P8oeZUsckn

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 11, 2024

WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman highlighted our major victories in the war on wasteful animal testing, recommendations for the new Congress, the incoming Administration and DOGE, and presented new polling showing that 85 percent of taxpayers want to end government experiments on pets.

Following the event, WCW and Uno met with lawmakers including WCW allies Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Don Davis (D-NC), Majorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Young Kim (R-CA), Scott Perry (R-PA), Andre Carson (D-IN), Laurel Lee (R-FL), Ilhan Omar (R-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Seth Moulton (D-MA) and David Valadao (R-CA) to discuss plans for cutting even more wasteful government spending on pet abuse.

The U.S. government is the single largest funder of cruel and outdated dog and cat testing. For years, WCW has been leading bipartisan efforts with Congress to expose and cut taxpayer funding for abusive and unnecessary experiments on pets in the U.S. and overseas and retire the survivors to loving homes. The solution is simple: