• Directly following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, lawsuits, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, the Trump Administration and Congress are cutting funding for experiments on dogs, cats, and other animals in labs around the world. 
• Since 2019, when WCW launched its Worldwide Waste campaign—the first campaign targeting taxpayer funding for foreign animal labs like Dr. Fauci’s Tunisian beagle lab—we have been leading the charge to find, expose, and defund animal experiments overseas. 
• In 2020, WCW made history by exposing and ending Fauci’s funding of dangerous gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice in Wuhan that probably infected Patient Zero, likely caused COVID, and killed millions. Our exposé has now prompted the Trump Administration to propose a 40% National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget cut. 
• Just this year, WCW campaigns have prompted the Trump Administration to end a dangerous $1 million bird flu gain-of-function collaboration with Wuhan-linked experimenters, cut Fauci-funded rabbit experiments, and end an NIH-Department of Defense (DOD) contract for cruel drug testing on 300 beagles a week in China. The NIH also disqualified several Chinese animal labs that WCW has been targeting from future funding. 
• Congress is currently advancing 2026 spending bills that include WCW-backed measures to cut Pentagon, State Department, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and additional funding to animal labs in China and other adversarial nations. 
• WCW’s investigation has exposed how 300 animal labs in foreign countries are still eligible for NIH funding.
• WCW just exposed how the Pentagon is funding experiments in Italy, Canada, and Australia that involve implanting electrodes in cats’ heads and blasting them with loud noises, poisoning beagles with experimental drugs, intentionally detaching dogs’ retinas and slicing their muscles, and other barbaric abuses. 

 

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Since 2019, when White Coat Waste launched its Worldwide Waste campaign—the first campaign targeting taxpayer funding for foreign animal labs—we have been leading the charge to find, expose, and defund animal experiments overseas. 

In 2020, we made history by exposing and ending Dr. Fauci’s funding of dangerous gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice in Wuhan that probably infected Patient Zero, likely caused COVID, and killed millions. 

Now, the Wuhan lab scandal WCW uncovered has directly prompted the Trump Administration to propose a 40 percent cut to the NIH’s $48 billion budget, about 40 percent of which is currently wasted on animal tests. 

For years, we’ve been uniting Republicans and Democrats in Congress to hold agencies like the NIH and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) accountable, and bringing together strange bedfellows coalitions to fight foreign aid for animal labs.   

For instance, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has repeatedly featured examples from our Worldwide Waste investigations in his annual Festivus reports highlighting wasteful spending. And we rallied bipartisan lawmakers to demand a federal audit that confirmed our findings about billions in unchecked spending in foreign animal labs. 

To this day, WCW’s ongoing investigations and campaigns against foreign animal labs are prompting action from Congress and the Trump Administration, too. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

In addition to our blockbuster investigation of the Wuhan animal lab, WCW famously exposed Dr. Fauci’s sand fly experiments on beagles in Tunisia. We also uncovered and ended taxpayer funding for Putin’s deadly treadmill tests on kittens and all other animal labs in Russia. 

So far this year, WCW investigations have led the Trump Administration to cut Fauci-funded rabbit experiments and end an NIH-DOD contract for cruel drug testing on 300 beagles a week in China.

The NIH also disqualified several Chinese animal labs that WCW has been targeting from future funding and suspended funding for secretive pass-through grants to foreign labs, like the ones that funded the Wuhan lab and Fauci’s beagle tests in Tunisia. 

Unfortunately, over 300 animal labs in foreign countries—including 18 in China—are still eligible to rake in U.S. tax dollars from the NIH. 

We recently exposed how the NIH is still funding grants that paid a lab in Canada to sew kittens’ eyes shut, how NIH-funded animal experimenters collaborated with sanctioned labs in Iran and China for invasive brain experiments on primates, and how an NIH grant paid experimenters in a Russian lab to chop off healthy cats’ legs.

Since 2021, we’ve been working with lawmakers including Lisa McClain (R-MI), Don Davis (D-NC), and Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to pass the bipartisan Accountability in Foreign Animal Research (AFAR) Act to defund animal labs in China, Russia, Iran, and other adversarial nations. 

We’re currently suing the NIH in a federal lawsuit to close an NIH loophole we exposed that exempts overseas labs from oversight and accountability, and working on bipartisan legislation called the WATCH Act with Sens. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) to do the same. 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

In addition to exposing and ending a DOD-NIH contract for cruel drug testing on 300 beagles a week in China, a new WCW investigation uncovered how the Pentagon is funding experiments in Italy, Canada, and Australia that implant electrodes in cats’ heads and blast them with loud noises, poison beagles with experimental drugs, intentionally detach dogs’ retinas and slice their muscles, and other barbaric abuses. 

Thanks to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA)—and inspired by WCW’s investigations and lobbying—the House and Senate versions of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act include a WCW-backed measure that cuts DOD funding for all animal testing in labs in China, Russia, Iran, and other adversarial nations. 

Following WCW lobbying, Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA) has once again included language defunding adversaries’ labs in the House’s 2026 Defense spending bill. 

STATE DEPARTMENT/USAID 

As WCW first exposed, it wasn’t just Fauci who funded EcoHealth’s reckless gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice in Wuhan that probably infected Patient Zero and prompted the pandemic. The State Department’s USAID paid for it, too. 

Now, the House Appropriations Committee’s 2026 spending bill includes WCW-backed language calling for all State Department funding for EcoHealth Alliance, the Wuhan animal lab, and other labs in China and hostile countries to be cut. Last year’s bill did the same, following WCW lobbying. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Earlier this year, we uncovered how a Vanderbilt University animal experimenter has been buying primates and abusing them in cruel brain experiments funded by over $20 million from the NIH and NSF, conducted in collaboration with experimenters at sanctioned labs in Iran and China. 

Now, the House Appropriations Committee’s 2026 NSF spending bill includes WCW-backed language calling for all NSF funding for labs in China, Iran, and hostile countries to be cut. 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

This year, we ended the USDA’s cruel and dangerous $1 million bird flu gain-of-function collaboration with Wuhan-linked experimenters in China. Records secured by WCW via the Freedom of Information Act showed that birds as young as one day old would be infected with avian flu and allowed to suffer in painful and “severe” experiments without any relief. 

The photo of animal experimenters above is from inside the USDA lab that is working with Chinese government white coats on dangerous bird flu gain-of-function tests.

We previously exposed how the USDA also funded deadly brain experiments on foxes at a Kremlin-run “experimental fur farm.” 

Now, the USDA’s 2026 spending bill includes WCW-backed language demanding a report from the agency detailing its funding of labs in China and Russia over the past five years, including a list of all projects and their cost to taxpayers.  We have a right to know what we’re being forced to fund in foreign adversaries’ animal labs! 

One of our top priorities for the new Trump Administration is cutting off funding for foreign animal labs, and we’re delivering. 

The solution is simple: