Rand Paul’s Festivus Report Features Cat-astrophic Waste Exposed by WCW

Posted by Amanda Nieves
23 December 2024 | Blog

 

  • For the sixth year straight, Senator Rand Paul’s annual Festivus report features examples of wasteful government animal experiments uncovered by WCW
  • This year’s installment includes Fauci-funded COVID experiments on cats, NIH-funded motion sickness tests on cats, and constipation experiments on cats funded by the Pentagon
  • Previous Festivus reports have included WCW’s investigation exposing NIH funding for Fauci’s beagle tests and Monkey Island, Putin’s kitten lab, NIH’s cocaine experiments on puppies, and other boondoggles in the U.S. and overseas.
  • Sen. Paul’s report provides a reliable roadmap of billions in wasteful spending for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut

Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Festivus report lampooning ridiculous government spending has become an annual tradition, as has his habit of including wasteful animal experiments exposed by White Coat Waste Project (WCW). And this year is no different!

Sen. Paul’s 2024 installment of Festivus was just released and features three examples of cat-astrophic government waste that WCW uncovered.

The report includes WCW’s exposé of ongoing Fauci-funded COVID experiments on cats that have cost taxpayers over $2 million from the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

It also includes WCW’s investigation of a $1.5 million grant from the NIH that paid University of Pittsburgh white coats to make cats nauseous by exposing them to bright lights and electric shocks and spinning them hundreds of times on a hydraulic table for motion sickness experiments. Some cats had holes drilled into their skulls to restrain their heads during the experiment.

And Sen. Paul also features WCW’s investigation of another Pitt lab that has raked in over $10 million from the Department of Defense (DOD) to shove marbles up cats’ butts and then electroshock them for wasteful constipation experiments.

The Festivus report also uncovers over $400,000 wasted by NIH hooking lonely rats on cocaine.

This is Sen. Paul’s sixth straight year featuring waste uncovered by WCW. Last year’s report included WCW’s investigations of Fauci’s beagle experiments and Monkey Island, and NIH-funded treadmill tests on cats in Russia.


Is this how you want your money spent?

Sen. Paul’s report provides a reliable roadmap of reckless spending for the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to put on the chopping block–and they’re taking notice!

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