Posted by Amanda Nieves | 25 March 2022

Give Them Back: A Second Chance for Lab Animals A White Coat Waste Project Op-ed, originally published in M. Citizen Magazine, Issue 7 | Spring 2022 Getting through the pandemic was challenging — but the unconditional love of an animal made it a little easier. Shelters were cleared nationwide as millions of Americans adopted pandemic...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 23 March 2022

We’ve been finding, exposing, and defunding wasteful government spending on animal experimentation for years. It’s what we do. It’s our “thing.” But sometimes, we find something so egregious that it’s hard to fathom. It doesn’t happen often, but it happened recently, when we discovered that U.S. taxpayer dollars were funding monstrously cruel experiments on kittens...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 23 March 2022

WASTE WARRIORS.Striking fear into bureaucrats and white coats nationwide, Waste Warriors are White Coat Waste Project’s secret weapon in the War on Waste — a bipartisan coalition of Representatives and Senators who have helped us find, expose, and defund some of the government’s worst animal experiments. They may not be able to leap tall buildings...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 18 March 2022

  Waste Warrior, Veteran, and Iowa Senator Joni Ernst loves transparency and hates government waste.  She’s supported countless efforts to promote good governance and curb wasteful spending — in addition to calling out unnecessary frivolities, like putting turkeys on treadmills to see how fast they walk. (The answer is 6mph. Now, ask yourself: was that...

Posted by Justin Goodman | 17 March 2022

Want to Cut Government Waste? Fix Government Transparency Originally published as a Newsweek Op-Ed.  Transparency is an integral part of the American republic. We can never be a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” without an informed and engaged citizenry, and Americans can never be fully informed if our government shields...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 15 March 2022

They say good things come to those who wait. It’s a cliché, for sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong — at least not when it comes to this year’s federal budget. After months of waiting, the federal spending bill for 2022 was passed by Congress and signed into law on March 15, 2022. The...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 14 March 2022

  Earlier this month, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) revealed that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was funding cruel and wasteful experiments on cats…in Russia. In case you missed the news, WCW discovered that in 2021, over half a million dollars of your money went to the Russian government’s Pavlov Institute of Physiology in...

Posted by MaryAnn Hussey | 07 March 2022

Nothing moves faster than the speed of light. It’s the universe’s speed limit. There are some things that come close, however, like cosmic rays and subatomic particles… …and shady nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance’s ability to slurp up taxpayer money whenever it becomes available. 😡🤬😡  While investigating federal grants, White Coat Waste Project discovered that the notorious...