White Coat Waste (WCW) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) have joined forces and filed formal complaints with Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte Moring, documenting Pentagon-funded animal labs that failed to publicly disclose their taxpayer funding as required under Sen. Ernst’s 2021 federal law, the COST Act. Read WCW’s complaint and Sen. Ernst’s letter to the Inspector General. 

Along with @WhiteCoatWaste, I’m demanding an investigation to ensure complete compliance with the COST Act, a law I authored that requires all Pentagon R&D projects to disclose the cost to taxpayers.

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— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) February 12, 2026

WCW’s complaint details how Oregon Health & Science University injected monkeys with an experimental, HIV-like virus, Emory University pumped synthetic mRNA into mice, Harvard University’s Wyss Institute inflicted traumatic brain injuries on pigs, and UC Berkeley implanted neural probes into bats’ brains. These projects were backed by more than $40 million in taxpayer funding, but experimenters failed to disclose how much money they wasted on these cruel tests. 

Read the Gateway Pundit story below. 

Taxpayer-funded animal experimenters who conceal the cost from the American people should be held accountable.  

The solution is simple: