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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  White Coat Waste (WCW) is urging Congress to defund Alpha Genesis, a notorious taxpayer-funded primate breeder and experimentation laboratory where 43 monkeys just escaped Over 10,000 primates are imprisoned at the company’s facilities, including 3,300 on Fauci’s Monkey Island—first exposed by WCW in 2021—that Alpha Genesis currently runs via a $23 million NIH contract...

UPDATE: January 2025 – Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting wasteful government animal tests exposed by White Coat Waste (WCW) The pair tweeted out examples of waste to cut including the Kremlin’s cat lab, Fauci’s...

  White Coat Waste’s (WCW) new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) investigation reveals that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has wasted over $3.6M funding tests where monkeys’ skulls are cracked open, horseradish and other toxins are injected into their brains, and they are addicted to cocaine and forced to gamble for water The National...

  This summer, following WCW investigations and campaigns, Congress unanimously passed bipartisan legislation defunding the Defense Department’s wasteful dog and cat testing Now, WCW has united a diverse bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, advocacy groups, experts, and taxpayers to get this measure to the President’s desk In a new bipartisan letter to the Armed Services Committee,...