• Citing WCW investigations, 13 Democrat and Republican lawmakers are demanding a federal audit of taxpayer funding for dog and cat testing
• In their letter to the Government Accountability Office, they write that a lack of transparency about government spending on dog and cat experiments “is bad for taxpayers and animals.”
• The bipartisan letter references WCW investigations of dog and cat experiments funded by the USDA, NIH, and DOD
• New WCW research shows that 85% of taxpayers oppose the government’s painful pet experiments and that the practice could be eliminated within a decade or sooner

The U.S. government is the single largest funder of cruel and outdated dog and cat testing. For years, White Coat Waste (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.

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

Now, citing WCW investigations, a bipartisan coalition led by Congress members Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Dina Titus (D-NV) have fired off a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) demanding an audit of government spending on cruel and wasteful dog and cat experiments in the U.S. and overseas.

In their letter to the GAO, they write, “Despite repeated requests from Congress, we still do not know how many dogs and cats are being used in federally-funded research, what they are used for, how much it costs taxpayers, and what our return on investment is. This is bad for taxpayers and animals.”

Reps. Titus and Malliotakis announced the move at a Congressional briefing co-hosted with WCW last week.

Dozens of TV channels and other news outlets across the country ran stories about the joint event and WCW-inspired audit request.

The letter references WCW investigations of cruel and wasteful testing on pets funded by the Department of Defense (DOD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Department of Agriculture. It also mentions WCW’s victories against Fauci’s beagle tests and kitten labs and the Department of Veterans Affairs’ experiments on cats.

Joining Reps. Titus and Malliotakis on the GAO request are Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Pete Stauber (R-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Don Davis (D-NC), Jared Huffman (D-CA), and Chris Smith (R-NJ).

Since 2016, numerous GAO audits of billions in government spending on animal testing prompted by WCW investigations have led to major reforms in transparency and oversight of taxpayer-funded animal labs in the U.S. and overseas.

Taxpayers have a right to know how much of their hard-earned money is being wasted by the NIH, DOD, USDA, and other government agencies to torture puppies and kittens in barbaric and outdated experiments in labs around the world.

A staggering 85 percent of taxpayers—Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike—oppose the government’s painful testing on dogs and cats and we’re grateful to Reps. Titus, Malliotakis, and their colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their outstanding work to investigate and defund these wasteful programs.

The solution is simple: