Posted by Allison McDonald | 28 January 2025

  White Coat Waste (WCW) released a 4-point-plan for the Trump Administration and DOGE that will cut billions in wasteful government spending and save millions of animals WCW proposes defunding dog and cat tests, cutting off China’s animal labs, reinstating Trump’s EPA animal testing phaseout plan, and abolishing the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 24 January 2025

  A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that U.S. taxpayer-funded experimenters collaborated with sanctioned labs in Iran and China for cruel testing on primates procured from South Carolina’s notorious Alpha Genesis breeding facility In the experiments, monkeys had holes drilled into their skulls, electrodes implanted into their brains, and were locked in...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 18 January 2025

  Following years of White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations and lobbying, Wuhan lab funder EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) and its president Peter Daszak have been officially debarred from receiving taxpayer funding for five years. The Biden Administration relied, in part, on documents first obtained by WCW in its decision to blacklist EHA. NIH has confirmed that...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 13 January 2025

  White Coat Waste (WCW) just unveiled a simple 4-point-plan for Trump 2.0’s first 100 days that will cut billions in wasteful government spending and save millions of animals WCW proposes defunding dog and cat tests, cutting off China’s animal labs, reinstating Trump’s EPA animal testing phaseout plan, and abolishing the National Institute of Allergy...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 23 December 2024

  For the sixth year straight, Senator Rand Paul’s annual Festivus report features examples of wasteful government animal experiments uncovered by WCW This year’s installment includes Fauci-funded COVID experiments on cats, NIH-funded motion sickness tests on cats, and constipation experiments on cats funded by the Pentagon Previous Festivus reports have included WCW’s investigation exposing NIH...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 21 December 2024

  A new White Coat Waste analysis of federal spending uncovered over $10 million in taxpayer-funded grants currently being wasted to create transgender mice, rats, and monkeys in university labs  In the tax-funded experiments, mice, rats, and large animals underwent invasive surgeries and hormone therapies to mimic gender transitions in painful and deadly experiments  The...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 16 December 2024

  Citing WCW investigations, 13 Democrat and Republican lawmakers are demanding a federal audit of taxpayer funding for dog and cat testing In their letter to the Government Accountability Office, they write that a lack of transparency about government spending on dog and cat experiments “is bad for taxpayers and animals.” The bipartisan letter references...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 13 December 2024

  White Coat Waste (WCW) —with rescued lab beagles in tow—co-hosted a Congressional briefing with Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) and Dina Titus (D-NV) to highlight progress to protect pets and tax dollars from wasteful government experiments At the event, Reps. Malliotakis and Titus announced that they’ve called on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 26 November 2024

  U.S. Congressman Pete Stauber is calling for disgraced National Institutes of Health (NIH) beagle supplier Envigo to be defunded and investigated for potential fraud Stauber’s letter to the Small Business Administration’s Inspector General cites White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations into Envigo’s taxpayer funding WCW exposed how Envigo supplied puppies for deadly experiments in labs...