Posted by Amanda Nieves | 25 January 2023

  It’s only the third week of the new year and a new Congressional session, but we’re already whacking wasteful spending on Capitol Hill! On the heels of a damning federal audit prompted by WCW that documents how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) violated federal policies and mismanaged the notorious...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 24 January 2023

As we recently reported, after three years of White Coat Waste Project (WCW) efforts—and inaction and obstruction by Congress—the newly-minted House leadership is finally starting to investigate whether white coats in Wuhan wasted our hard-earned money on reckless animal experiments that sparked a devastating pandemic.  This can’t come fast enough for the millions of taxpayers...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 17 January 2023

Animals should be treated with care, not cruelty NIH should follow VA example and end cruel experiments on dogs Written by Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) and Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President, White Coat Waste Project Originally published by Nevada Current |  January 17, 2023 In recent years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 12 January 2023

Ever since we first exposed and cut taxpayer funding for dangerous gain-of-function experiments on animals at the Wuhan lab, we’ve been urging Congress and the White House to investigate whether a lab leak caused the COVID pandemic.  Now, after nearly three years of foot-dragging by Congress, the newly installed House leadership has placed a COVID...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 11 January 2023

White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is proud to award its third annual Greenbaum Policy Pioneer award to two-time WCW Waste Warrior (2016  & 2021) and recently retired U.S. Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) for her decades of visionary leadership and work with WCW on efforts to protect animals and taxpayers from wasteful and cruel government experiments. WCW...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 02 January 2023

Life after the lab: Patched-up Violet the hound was used as surgery practice, while cats Delilah and Petite survived cannibalism experiments – all three now have loving homes thanks to adoption Published by DailyMailUK | January 2, 2023 Violet the hound was kept caged in a dark basement laboratory in Washington DC for most of...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 26 December 2022

It’s a Festivus for the rest of us! Famously inspired by Seinfeld, Festivus entails enjoying a nice meal of meatloaf on a bed of lettuce, staring longingly at the tinsel-free Festivus pole, and, of course, airing grievances.  And, boy, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has plenty to complain about in his annual Festivus Report on government...

Posted by Amanda Nieves | 22 December 2022

It’s that time of year. Congress is once again scrambling to keep the government open and funded for another year. The mammoth $1.7 trillion spending bill—aka the “omnibus”—they’re about to enact is far from a perfect proposal but White Coat Waste Project is proud to have secured key victories in the War on Waste that...

Posted by Allison McDonald | 21 December 2022

Omnibus bill to cut funds to Wuhan virology lab Originally published by The Washington Times   |   December 21, 2022 Congress’ $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill to keep the government funded contains provisions that will prevent the Pentagon and State Department from funding China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, considered a possible origin point for the outbreak...