This summer, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to defund the Department of Veterans Affairs’ most painful and wasteful dog experiments. During the debate, some of the outstanding Waste Warriors in Congress who led the effort gave impassioned speeches in support of the legislation. Below are video highlights of lawmakers speaking out against the...
We’re proud to have the support of national veterans’ groups, veterans serving in Congress, a majority of veterans and their families, the entire House of Representatives, and countless taxpayers who want to end the VA’s wasteful spending on “maximum pain” heart attacks experiments and other abusive tests on dogs. The VA is still resisting because it wants to keep...
The list of veterans and veterans’ organizations supporting an end to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ wasteful and cruel dog experiments is growing rapidly. MVA Executive Director Commander John Wells (Ret.) with VA Secretary David Shulkin Today, veterans service organization Military-Veterans Advocacy fired off a letter to Congress to express its support for the effort...
This morning, White Coat Waste Project (WCW) filed a federal lawsuit against Stokes Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in Cleveland, Ohio for violating the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to release details of what it does to dogs in wasteful and deadly experiments and what it costs. Cleveland.com broke the story. The lawsuit follows...
Drilling holes in puppies’ heads and damaging their brains is a nightmare fit for a horror movie, but it’s also just another day in a taxpayer-funded government animal laboratory. You know what else is scary? You’re paying for it. Just in time for Halloween, check out this trio of terrifying tests you’re being tricked into funding:...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has had trouble providing evidence that its painful dog experiments–including “maximum pain” heart attack tests on puppies–are helping veterans. Apparently, that’s because they’re not. In a new article published in The Hill, Benjamin Krause–a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran, journalist, attorney, and founder of DisabledVeterans.org–does a deep dive into the VA’s dubious claims that...
Waste warrior Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has once again proven he’s on the taxpayer’s side. Flake just secured another win to reduce wasteful spending, this time shepherding an amendment as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to include price tags for their research projects in...
Photos taken by a whistleblower inside the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s dog experimentation laboratory White Coat Waste Project (WCW) has just exposed that Virginians have been paying twice—through both their federal and state taxes—for the Richmond Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s (VAMC) cruel and wasteful experiments on dogs that have been cited for egregious...
Following a WCW exposé documenting that the Cleveland Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center experimented on and killed dogs it told reporters it “adopted out,” the VA is being urged to create a formal policy allowing dogs to be adopted out from its laboratories. In a letter to VA Secretary Shulkin last week, Reps. Ted Lieu...
