Following White Coat Waste (WCW) public campaigns, lobbying, and behind-the-scenes efforts with the current Trump Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just confirmed that it is completely shutting down its primate labs.

The decision follows WCW campaigns exposing taxpayer-funded primate tests that directly prompted U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to declare, “We are working ferociously to end all non-human primate studies” and pledge to work with WCW to do so. 

The CDC’s laboratories currently imprison approximately 200 monkeys who are subjected to painful and deadly experiments in which they are infected with pathogens including smallpox, Ebola, hepatitis, and HIV-like viruses at taxpayer expense. Dr. Fauci is among the mad scientists who have funded cruel primate experiments at the CDC.

WCW has been working to shut down the CDC’s primate labs and retire the survivors since 2018.

In August, Laura Loomer reported, “Secretary Kennedy, who wrote about White Coat Waste’s viral ‘Beaglegate’ investigation in his book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci,’ said he looks forward to working with White Coat Waste to identify and cut more wasteful, inhumane, and unnecessary taxpayer funded animal tests.” 

Below is a statement from WCW President and Founder Anthony Bellotti:

“This is another historic White Coat Waste victory — and we couldn’t be prouder to have worked with the Trump Administration to cut CDC’s government monkey business. Secretary Kennedy has now delivered on his promise to work with White Coat Waste by completely shutting down the CDC’s primate labs, where hundreds of victims were infected with smallpox, Ebola, hepatitis, and HIV-like viruses at taxpayer expense by Dr. Fauci and other mad scientists.

During the first Trump Administration, a White Coat Waste investigation and campaign also prompted the FDA to end wasteful nicotine addiction tests on baby monkeys and — for the first time ever — retire the primates to a sanctuary.  We’ve been working with Trump’s HHS to secure the same reprieve for as many CDC lab survivors as possible, which White Coat Waste has been urging the agency to do for years.

While legacy groups in the animal rights establishment throw red paint, we cut red tape — and, since 2017, White Coat Waste has led winning campaigns to wipe out entire federal primate labs under President Trump. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”