• Prompted by White Coat Waste’s (WCW) relentless investigations, grassroots campaigning, and lobbying, over a dozen bipartisan members of Congress have re-introduced the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act to cut ALL funding for the National Institutes of Health’s painful cat and dog experiments worldwide.
• WCW has uncovered how the NIH, under Director Jay Bhattacharya, is doubling down on painful pet testing by renewing many Fauci-era dog and cat experiments and funding brand new beagle labs despite claiming to be “working tirelessly” on a “phase out” plan.
• While other Trump agencies like the Pentagon are canceling and banning dog and cat labs exposed by WCW, the NIH’s new ‘animal testing czar’ is refusing to cut grants and contracts for dog and cat experiments and prohibit future funding.
• Over 16,000 dogs and cats were abused in painful experiments last year in the U.S., many of which are funded by the NIH.
• WCW is the first and only group to expose Dr. Fauci’s taxpayer-funded kitten and beagle torture in the U.S. and overseas—investigations that led directly to the PAAW Act.
• WCW’s campaigns have exposed how the NIH is the worst offender when it comes to funding painful experiments on pets.

Last week, after an exclusive White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation uncovered over $57 million in Army-funded dog and cat experiments worldwide, President Trump’s Defense Department cut millions in contracts for the cruel labs we exposed and specifically credited WCW for bringing them to light. Weeks prior, the DOD cut a $10 million Navy contract for cruel cat constipation experiments unearthed by WCW, and the Navy subsequently banned all testing on dogs and cats.

Unfortunately, WCW has exposed how Trump’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) is lagging far behind and has recently wasted millions to renew Fauci-era dog and cat labs and start up many brand-new beagle experiments.

Now, thanks to WCW, bipartisan Congressmembers are coming to the rescue.

Days after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) joined other lawmakers in demanding that Jay Bhattacharya end NIH funding for dog and cat labs, the Congresswoman has just re-introduced her bipartisan Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act (HR 4698) to permanently defund all of the NIH’s painful experiments on dogs and cats in the U.S., China, and all other foreign countries.

Joining Rep. Mace to re-introduce the PAAW Act are Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Darren Soto (D-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Don Davis (D-NC), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), Andre Carson (D-IN), Troy Nehls (R-TX), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Daniel Webster (R-FL), Jill Tokuda (D-HI), and Maria Salazar (R-FL).

Last year, 12,500 dogs and 3,800 cats were subjected to painful experiments in the U.S.—many without any pain relief.  As we’ve testified in Congress, most of these labs are funded with our tax dollars.

Videos and other documents obtained by WCW show that the NIH just gave new funding and a five-year extension to a lab breeding over 600 dogs to suffer from crippling diseases and abusing them in painful, deadly experiments.

We need to pass the PAAW Act because the NIH still funds more painful testing on dogs and cats than any other federal agency—and it’s not letting up.

In a series of lethal tests exposed by a WCW investigation, NIH-funded experimenters in the U.S. and Russia sawed off the legs of healthy cats and replaced them with experimental prosthetic limbs anchored to the bone.

WCW’s ongoing investigations and lawsuits are exposing how the NIH continues to renew and start up funding for cruel experiments on cats and dogs at home and abroad, including: 

• Infesting hundreds of puppies with “mutant ticks” in maximum pain experiments 
• Infecting cats with COVID and then killing them 
• Blinding dogs and stitching kittens’ eyes shut
• Breeding kittens to suffer from debilitating genetic disorders that cause loss of muscle control, difficulty walking, vision loss, tremors, and early death 
• Force-feeding beagles experimental weight loss drugs 
• Breeding sick and deformed dogs to kill in experiments 
• Cutting out cats’ eyes and electroshocking them
• Injecting beagle puppies with cocaine and methamphetamines

Recently, directly following relentless pressure from White Coat Waste and Congress, Jay Bhattacharya and NIH Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer finally said they are “working tirelessly” to “phase out” testing on dogs and cats after defiantly defending animal labs and refusing to take action for months. 

But, despite its recent promise to “phase out” dog and cat labs, the NIH hasn’t actually announced details of this effort, including any spending cuts, timelines, benchmarks, or funding prohibitions.

Instead of accepting responsibility and taking immediate action, Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer are passing the buck and claiming the active NIH funding we’ve exposed for dog and cat labs “predates them,” but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

For years—since we first exposed Fauci’s funding for beagle torture in Tunisia—WCW, Rep. Mace and other lawmakers have collaborated to cut NIH funding for dog and cat experiments like the Kremlin’s cruel treadmill experiments on kittens and Dr. Fauci’s misguided plan to waste $1.8 million on runny nose experiments on puppies.

Finally cutting funding for all dog and cat experiments has been WCW’s top priority for Congress and the new Trump Administration. The PAAW Act is the solution: