White Coat Waste has filed four new lawsuits against the National Institutes of Health demanding that it turn over records related to $600 million in recent and active grants and contracts paying for wasteful and inhumane testing on dogs and cats in the US and overseas. The documents requested by WCW under the Freedom of...
A new White Coat Waste investigation exposes a brutal betrayal: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) extended lethal heart failure experiments on kittens—within days of claiming it was “working tirelessly” to phase out dog and cat testing. Exclusive documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that an NIH-funded lab at...
Prompted by White Coat Waste’s (WCW) relentless investigations, grassroots campaigning, and lobbying, over a dozen bipartisan members of Congress have re-introduced the Preventing Animal Abuse and Waste (PAAW) Act to cut ALL funding for the National Institutes of Health’s painful cat and dog experiments worldwide. WCW has uncovered how the NIH, under Director Jay...
Directly following White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, lawsuits, grassroots pressure, and lobbying, the Trump Administration and Congress are cutting funding for experiments on dogs, cats, and other animals in labs around the world. Since 2019, when WCW launched its Worldwide Waste campaign—the first campaign targeting taxpayer funding for foreign animal labs like Dr. Fauci’s...
Prompted by White Coat Waste’s (WCW) investigations, grassroots pressure, Congressional testimony, and lobbying, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has introduced a bill, the TRANS MICE Act, to prohibit all taxpayer funding for cruel transgender animal experiments. WCW’s ongoing blockbuster investigation exposed how agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation, and others...
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...
