Instant Impact: Days after an exclusive White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation uncovered over $57 million in active Pentagon-funded dog and cat experiments worldwide, Trump’s Defense Department is cutting the multi-million-dollar contracts and specifically crediting WCW for bringing them to light. Pentagon Promises Kept: Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Laura Loomer that the...
Following a relentless White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now saying it will phase out dog and cat testing after months of excuses, delays, and defending animal labs. But the NIH hasn’t announced any spending cuts, timelines, benchmarks, or funding prohibitions, and is blaming others and claiming its...
Directly following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, Congress has advanced 2026 Pentagon budget bills that would cut funding for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) painful experiments on dogs and cats and Chinese animal labs. Congress’s action comes weeks after WCW convinced the Pentagon to cancel a $10 million cat constipation...
WCW FORCED THE PHASE-OUT. After months of excuses, delays, and defending animal labs, NIH now says it will phase out dog and cat testing—because White Coat Waste forced them to. THE TIMELINE IS DECISIVE. Just 48 hours after WCW rallied Rep. Paul Gosar and 10 other lawmakers to grill NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya with...
In the wake of mounting controversy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—including public backlash over Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer’s defense of animal testing—Congress is turning up the pressure. White Coat Waste (WCW) has rallied lawmakers to directly confront the agency’s dog and cat labs, misguided priorities, and reckless spending. WCW has exclusively...
Following through on its commitment from earlier this year, President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to cut wasteful animal tests and retire lab survivors. Statement from Anthony Bellotti, President and Founder, White Coat Waste “Reinstating the EPA’s animal testing phase-out and its lab animal retirement policy has been a top priority...
After a years-long campaign by White Coat Waste (WCW), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will become the first federal agency in U.S. history to eliminate primate testing—the direct result of WCW’s investigations, shutdown strategy, and legislative leadership. Since 2019, WCW has been exposing the VA’s cruel and wasteful experiments on primates and successfully...
Last month, following a nine-year White Coat Waste (WCW) campaign, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shut down its last in-house beagle laboratory. WCW first exposed this lab in 2016—no one else did. Over 40 years, it slaughtered more than 2,100 beagles. It was the federal government’s largest and last confirmed in-house dog lab....
Following a White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation and campaign, the Trump Administration has cut a contract for cruel experimental drug tests on 300 beagles a week in a Chinese lab funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DOD). The decision came just days after WCW campaigns shut down the...
