This year, major media outlets — including Fox News, The New York Times, CBS News, Newsmax, The New Yorker, POLITICO, Daily Caller, CNN, Breitbart, and others — featured White Coat Waste’s (WCW) game-changing, big-tent bipartisan campaigns, which elevated ending cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded animal testing to a top priority for Congress and President Donald Trump and his new administration. 

Here are twelve of the biggest wins that WCW scored for taxpayers and animals in 2025: 

1. Defunded the Pentagon’s painful pet experiments 

Ending dog and cat testing was our top priority for the new Trump administration, and we delivered.  

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed the 2026 defense policy bill, which included a bipartisan, WCW-backed measure slashing funding for the Pentagon’s painful experiments on dogs and cats. This WCW win marks the first time in history that Congress has cut funding for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) pet experiments. 

2. Banned U.S. Navy dog and cat testing 

In May, U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan issued the federal government’s first-ever ban on experiments on dogs and cats, crediting WCW’s investigations and advocacy for the move. Before prohibiting all pet testing, the Navy canceled a $10 million contract for cruel constipation experiments on cats uncovered by a WCW lawsuit. 

3. Closed the last in-house NIH beagle lab 

Following nearly a decade of relentless WCW campaigns, lawsuits, and lobbying, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) officially shut down the last beagle experimentation lab inside the agency’s headquarters. This was the federal government’s largest and last confirmed in-house dog lab. 

4. Cut contract for beagle tests in China 

We also delivered on another one of our top four priorities for the new Trump administration: defunding animal labs in China.  

A WCW investigation exposed and ended a joint NIH-DOD contract funding drug testing on 300 “cute” beagles a week at a Chinese lab. 

5. Terminated $1 million bird flu gain-of-function tests with China 

Speaking of China: Following WCW investigations and advocacy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture pulled the plug on a $1 million collaboration with Wuhan-linked experimenters in China for reckless bird flu gain-of-function tests.  

6. Folded Fauci’s bunny lab in China 

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) also cut a cruel Fauci-funded grant to China Medical University for malaria tests on rabbits that WCW revealed had received $135,000 last year and $677,000 since 2020.  

7. Eliminated the VA’s primate labs 

In another historic first, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) confirmed it was ahead of schedule on becoming the first federal agency to fully eliminate primate testing, following years of WCW investigations, grassroots pressure, and lobbying.  

8. Shut down the EPA’s animal labs and retired survivors 

Following years of WCW efforts that began during the first Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is shutting down its in-house animal testing labs and adopting out rabbits, rats, and fish rather than subjecting them to cruel, wasteful toxic exposure tests. Reinstating the EPA’s plans to end animal testing and retire survivors was one of our top four priorities for the new administration. 

9. Canceled transgender animal testing grants 

Following a viral WCW investigation, the Trump administration and DOGE cut funding for cruel transgender animal experiments, saving thousands of animals’ lives and over $16 million. President Donald Trump criticized the animal tests exposed by WCW during his State of the Union address in March, as well as in interviews and an Oval Office press event, marking the first time ever that a U.S. President has publicly criticized animal testing. 

10. Axed human fetal tissue experiments on animals 

Less than 24 hours after a WCW investigation broke, the NIH announced that it would not renew 17 grants funding inhumane experiments that implanted human fetal tissue into lab animals. The NIH grants raked in over $21 million last year — many were approved by Dr. Fauci and funded through 2026. 

11. Blacklisted Wuhan lab funder EcoHealth Alliance 

Following years of WCW lobbying — and relying, in part, on documents first obtained by a WCW investigation — the federal government debarred Wuhan lab funder EcoHealth Alliance from federal funding for five years.   

12. Ended the CDC’s monkey business 

Following years of WCW efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is shutting down its in-house primate labs and looking to send the animals to sanctuaries. Since 2018, WCW has been pushing the CDC to end its primate tests and retire the survivors. 

WCW is proud to be the MOST EFFECTIVE group fighting wasteful and cruel government animal tests.

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