• Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments. 
• Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out another $826,381 to a long-running dog lab at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) that breeds dogs to go blind for deadly experiments. 
• The letter cites several WCW investigations that have documented how, under ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the NIH is still renewing funding for Fauci-era dog and cat experiments despite having the authority to cut the funding and saying they’d be phased out.
• RFK, Jr. recently said he is “deeply committed to ending animal experimentation” and last year promised a “dramatic reduction in animal testing at the NIH.” NIH leadership has been undermining these efforts.
• Independent journalist Laura Loomer is also reporting that the NIH is preparing to make an announcement about cutting taxpayer funding for dog and cat testing following sustained pressure from WCW. 

Days after White Coat Waste (WCW) uncovered how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is still sending taxpayer money to cruel dog labs despite NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer’s promise to phase them out, U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) has fired off a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., demanding that he end all current and future NIH funding for painful dog and cat experiments.

Mace’s new letter to Secretary Kennedy cites several WCW investigations documenting ongoing NIH funding for dog and cat labs, including how NIH quietly awarded another $826,381 in January 2026 to a long-running dog breeding and experimentation lab at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

The NIH-funded lab breeds dogs with degenerative eye disorders, injects experimental treatments into their eyes, and forces them through dark obstacle courses while recording their attempts to escape. Some of the dogs are sold to other labs. Dogs who survive the experiments are usually killed and dissected regardless, including the breeder dogs when they can no longer reproduce. This grant has been continuously funded by the NIH since 1986 and has already cost taxpayers more than $46 million.

In an interview with Washington, DC’s ABC affiliate WJLA, Mace credited WCW for exposing the NIH’s testing on pets and said she met with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya last year and told him she’d do everything in her power to end the experiments. WCW has been working with Rep. Mace to end NIH dog and cat testing since she first got to Congress in 2021.

WOW:

Rep. Nancy Mace just revealed she told Trump’s NIH Director to his face that she will do “everything in my power” to expose NIH’s “barbaric” dog and cat testing.

“These are some of the most egregious experiments you can imagine … ”

And she credited White Coat Waste as a… pic.twitter.com/63NZCUgWnF

— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) February 4, 2026

In December, RFK, Jr. said he is “deeply committed to ending animal experimentation.” Last year, he also promised a “dramatic reduction in animal testing at the NIH.” But, WCW’s investigations have exposed that NIH leadership has been undermining these efforts.

Mace’s letter came days after independent journalist Laura Loomer reported on a new WCW analysis of federal grants indicating that, while NIH is still renewing existing grants funded dog and cat labs, it has apparently not funded any new dog and cat experiments in fiscal year 2026. Loomer also reported that sources tell her the NIH is preparing a formal announcement on dog and cat testing soon. 

🚨 SCOOP: @NIH To Cut Future Dog and Cat Lab Testing Funding Following White Coat Waste Campaign and Exposes🚨

A new White Coat Waste @WhiteCoatWaste review of federal grants reveals that the @NIH has apparently decided to not fund any new dog and cat experiments in fiscal year… pic.twitter.com/yHZDJ57Ug1

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 30, 2026

If Kennedy heeds Rep. Mace’s request, this would mark a major victory for WCW’s long-running campaign to end NIH’s wasteful and abusive testing on pets and another step toward dismantling Fauci-era animal labs in the U.S. and abroad.

The solution is simple: