• Senator James Lankford’s (R-OK) new Federal Fumbles report highlights hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments exposed and ended by White Coat Waste (WCW).
• Lankford features WCW’s viral investigation that eliminated National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for disturbing transgender animal tests, in which mice, rats, and monkeys were subjected to invasive hormone regimens and surgical procedures.
• The report also cites WCW’s exposé on an NIH-funded contract for cruel drug testing on up to 300 beagles per week in China — which was canceled by the Trump administration — and WCW’s investigation that ended NIH funding for grotesque animal labs using aborted human fetal tissue.
• In December, Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) 2025 Festivus Report also highlighted millions of dollars in needless, taxpayer-funded animal experiments uncovered by WCW, including NIH beagle tests.

Senator James Lankford’s (R-OK) new Federal Fumbles report highlights White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations that exposed and ended hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments — including transgender animal tests, human fetal tissue experiments on animals, and beagle labs in China.

My top five Federal Fumbles ⬇️
1. Government shutdowns that last 43 days and cost up to $85 billion.
2. $250 million on transgender experiments on mice and monkeys.
3. $124,000 sent to China to experiment on 300 beagles a week.
4. SNAP fraud, and one person stealing nearly $250… pic.twitter.com/6IxLQu5YhS

— Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) February 3, 2026

Citing WCW’s investigations and congressional testimony, Lankford’s report criticizes the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for wasting over $240 million on disturbing transgender animal experiments. These tests subjected mice, rats, and monkeys to hormone regimens and invasive surgical procedures to crudely mimic transgender children and adults. Many of the animals were then infected with viruses, injected with drugs and cancer cells, intentionally wounded, or exposed to painful shocks. WCW’s campaign prompted the Trump administration to cut funding for these and all other transgender animal labs.

The Federal Fumbles report also features the NIH’s wasteful spending on experiments that implanted human fetal tissue and organs into lab animals. After WCW revealed that many of these grants were still active under the current Trump administration, the NIH promised not to renew them — and the administration even banned future funding.

Lankford also cites a WCW investigation that uncovered $124,000 in U.S. taxpayer funding sent by the NIH to a Chinese laboratory to test experimental drugs on up to 300 beagles per week. The NIH ended the contract after WCW exposed it, but many Chinese animal labs still remain eligible for NIH funding.

Over $120,000 sent to China for experiments on cute beagles! Apparently, we did not learn our lesson from Wuhan nearly 6 years ago. Conducting animal studies inside China raises serious concerns about transparency, biosafety, and data integrity, especially when U.S. taxpayer…

— Sen. James Lankford (@SenatorLankford) February 5, 2026

Similarly, in December, Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) 2025 Festivus Report featured millions of dollars in wasteful government animal experiments exposed by WCW. These include painful, NIH-backed beagle tests initiated under Dr. Fauci; a dangerous U.S. Department of Agriculture–China bird flu gain-of-function project, later cut by the Trump administration; tens of millions of dollars wasted on the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program; and $54 million in U.S. Agency for International Development funding sent to EcoHealth Alliance for virus hunting and gain-of-function experiments similar to those that likely caused COVID-19.

The solution to ending wasteful government animal testing is simple: