Posted by Meg McCarney | 15 January 2026

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) analysis of government spending data shows that, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to dole out tens of millions in new funding to wasteful monkey labs, despite Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s pledges to end primate testing.  The...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 14 January 2026

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) new Kittengate investigation series has uncovered that National Institutes of Health-funded (NIH) experimenters plan to abuse 60 kittens in a deadly lab at the University of Minnesota (UMN).   Documents WCW obtained through state and federal open records requests reveal that kittens as young as two months old will have holes...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 12 January 2026

  Citing White Coat Waste investigations, DOGE Senate Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are demanding that the National Institutes of Health immediately cancel spending on a Fauci-funded bat breeding and experimentation lab on U.S. soil. Since 2023, White Coat Waste (WCW) has been campaigning to cut funding for the establishment of...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 09 January 2026

  Following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced an amendment to defund the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) painful dog and cat experiments. For years, WCW has exposed how the NSF funds labs that abuse dogs and cats, including inducing strokes in dogs, experimental drug tests involving repeated injections into puppies’ eyeballs,...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 30 December 2025

  This year, major media outlets — including Fox News, The New York Times, CBS News, Newsmax, The New Yorker, POLITICO, Daily Caller, CNN, Breitbart, and others — featured White Coat Waste’s (WCW) game-changing, big-tent bipartisan campaigns, which elevated ending cruel and wasteful taxpayer-funded animal testing to a top priority for Congress and President Donald Trump...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 23 December 2025

  For the seventh year in a row, Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Festivus Report features millions in wasteful government animal experiments uncovered by White Coat Waste (WCW). Sen. Paul writes: “White Coat Waste helped us uncover hundreds of millions of your hard-earned tax dollars funding labs, gain-of-function research, and brutal experiments on dogs, monkeys, and...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 10 December 2025

  Thanks to years of White Coat Waste’s (WCW) relentless investigations, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, President Trump just signed legislation that cuts funding for the Department of Defense’s (DOD) painful dog and cat experiments The WCW-backed measure is the first ever to defund the DOD’s dog and cat testing. The move is the culmination of...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 03 December 2025

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently doled out new funding to a kitten torture colony at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), despite the agency claiming it is “working tirelessly” to “phase out” cat experiments. Documents obtained by WCW through state and federal open records...

Posted by Meg McCarney | 02 December 2025

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes how the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU South) lab in Lima, Peru, is wasting millions of tax dollars to abuse a threatened primate species in dangerous virus experiments.  The Navy’s NAMRU South lab infects Nancy Ma’s night monkeys with diarrheal diseases, dengue,...