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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
