👏Thank you @RepNicole for your outstanding leadership on bipartisan efforts with WCW to cut wasteful USDA spending on dog and cat testing and to eliminate FDA red tape mandating beagle abuse!🐈🐶
"Ridglan is proof that change is indeed slow and disjointed...White Coat Waste has revealed that, contradictory to promises made, the @NIH under @SecKennedy’s leadership has spent over $126M toward experiments on cats and dogs, including Ridglan beagles, as recently as April."
🔥 President Trump just OFFICIALLY delivered one of White Coat Waste’s biggest WINS ever.
Bookmark this post.
This is HISTORIC.
For the first time ever, the Pentagon’s wasteful, inhumane dog and cat experiments are now DEFUNDED.
That’s millions of taxpayer dollars and innocent animal lives SAVED because of White Coat Waste’s investigations and campaigns.
We have spent years leading the charge to find, expose and defund the DOD’s taxpayer-funded pet experiments, but we couldn’t have done this without our brave allies in Congress.
Thank you @RepNancyMace, @RepDonDavis, @RepNicole, @SenJoniErnst, and @SenRandPaul for leading this huge legislative VICTORY for the American people! And thank you @SecWar@SecNav@LauraLoomer@LaraLeaTrump@MattGaetz for your advocacy!
Today’s groundbreaking win sets a BOLD precedent:
The American people will not put up with funding this madness any longer.
Today’s victory is only the beginning. The @NIH is still funding insane experiments on pets.
Stop the money. Stop the madness.
@AndyKimNJ
Thank you to your office for actually reading emails & creating a directed response—and not espousing some fluff about everything else.
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"11 members of Congress have signed a letter requesting that the @NIH end its funding for barbaric dog & cat experiments approved under Dr. Anthony Fauci. The letter cited...the relentless investigations of taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste"
📰Eleven Republican Members of Congress Demand NIH End Fauci’s ‘Barbaric’ Animal Tests as Agency Clings to Cruel Legacy
by @CassandraRules@gatewaypundit
Jul. 8, 2025
Eleven members of Congress have signed a letter requesting that the National Institutes of Health end its funding for barbaric dog and cat experiments approved under Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The letter cited Gateway Pundit’s reporting and the relentless investigations of taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
Writing to @NIHDirector_Jay, the House lawmakers, led by Republican @RepGosar, demanded the immediate cancellation of all Fauci-funded dog and cat experiments. Citing WCW’s evidence, they blasted the @NIH for “disturbing” tests, including a $10 million UNC-Chapel Hill project that breeds hemophiliac puppies only to slaughter them post-experiment. “We are sending this request with considerable urgency,” the lawmakers wrote, signaling a zero-tolerance stance on the NIH’s animal cruelty.
The letter cited Gateway Pundit’s exclusive report about how the NIH, under Director Bhattacharya, has renewed millions in funding for controversial experiments, including THC tests on monkeys at Harvard, tick bites on beagle puppies, and Anthony Fauci’s notorious “Monkey Island.”
“Ongoing investigations by the non-profit group White Coat Waste have documented how the NIH continues to renew and fund dozens of Dr. Fauci’s disturbing experiments on dogs and cats in labs around the world, in which animals are infested with insects, infected with viruses, force-fed experimental drugs, and killed,” the letter states.
Gosar laid out three ironclad demands to dismantle Dr. Anthony Fauci’s legacy of cruel animal testing. First, they requested that the NIH immediately cancel all active funding for dog and cat experiments approved under his tenure. Second, they insisted on a blanket prohibition of all new NIH grants for harmful dog and cat testing, aiming to choke off future atrocities. Finally, they demanded full transparency, asking the NIH to disclose all current taxpayer funding for these experiments, exposing the scope of the agency’s gruesome practices to public scrutiny.
The letter was co-signed by Republican Representatives @RepHageman@RepWebster@RepMTG@RepNancyMace@RepEliCrane@RepScottPerry@RepPeteStauber @RepCloudTX
Chris Smith, and @RepPatFallon.
Trump’s Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs, and EPA have already eliminated such testing in direct response to WCW’s investigations. Holdovers from the Obama and Biden Administrations appear to be preventing this kind of progress at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
WCW Senior Vice President @JustinRGoodman said in a statement provided to Gateway Pundit:
“White Coat Waste was the first—and remains the only—group to uncover and expose Dr. Fauci’s taxpayer-funded kitten and beagle experiments in the U.S. and Tunisia. That’s why we’re proud to support Rep. Gosar and his colleagues for holding NIH accountable for renewing Fauci’s taxpayer-funded dog and cat experiments. President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have made it clear: slash NIH’s bloated budget by 40 percent. But instead of following that directive, Director Jay Bhattacharya is plunging into his own BeagleGate scandal—extending Fauci’s torture labs and NIH declaring: “We have no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight.”While Trump’s Pentagon, Department of Veterans Affairs and EPA have banned or cut animal testing in direct response to WCW’s investigations, and the FDA has issued its first-ever phase-out plan, Bhattacharya’s NIH is doubling down—approving Biden-Fauci era grants and new payouts to labs where beagles are blinded, injected with cocaine, eaten alive by ticks, kittens’ eyes are sewn shut, cats are killed in COVID infection tests—and worse. And yet, the legacy organizations—some so-called ‘animal rights groups’—are still applauding NIH. This isn’t reform. It’s regression. And the solution isn’t more bureaucracy. It’s less spending: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
NIH Deputy Director @NKleinstreuer, a noted Fauci fangirl and Obama-era staffer, recently told NPR, “We have no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight. We know that animal studies are still very important and often scientifically justified.”
Despite Kleinstreuer’s defense of cruel and wasteful animal testing, PETA, which claims to be a leading animal rights organization, has repeatedly praised and covered for her.
Just yesterday, Kleinstreuer bombastically announced a minor technical change to the NIH grant proposal process, claiming it will “transform the scientific landscape and reduce and replace animal testing.” In reality, the new policy won’t save a single animal or cut a single lab.
Still, PETA is lying to their donors and falsely stating on their website and in emails that “NIH Cuts Funding for Big Swath of Animal Experiments.”
White Coat Waste responded to the announcement by telling Gateway Pundit, “Don’t believe the hype from legacy animal rights groups.”
“Yesterday’s NIH announcement doesn’t cut a single animal lab, save a single animal, or restrict funding for animal labs. Bhattacharya’s NIH is the black sheep and a big disappointment, and animal rights groups that have been captured by the NIH are giving them a pass while they dole out millions for animal torture in labs around the world.”
WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.
Thanks to @RepNancyMace’s years of A+ leadership, the Navy just banned all testing on dogs & cats!
WCW & @LauraLoomer are proud to work with Rep. Mace to cut funding for all dog and cat labs funded by Fauci & other bureaucrats & save survivors like Oliver 🇺🇸🐶🐈⛓️💥
NEW OP-ED: Government shouldn't be subsidizing puppy abuse
By Justin Marceau & Jared Goodman in @CapTimes
Following legal action by students and faculty at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, a Wisc judge recently appointed a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially prosecute criminal animal cruelty at Ridglan Farms, one of the country’s last large-scale breeders of beagle puppies for cruel experimentation.
Investigations of Ridglan’s puppy mill found thousands of beagles warehoused in tiny, filthy wire cages, stacked on top of each other like merchandise in a Costco. Puppies have had their vocal cords cut to silence them, and they’ve been forced to endure other painful unanesthetized surgeries.
Many of the dogs incessantly pace in their cages, pawing at the cage walls in attempts to escape. Poor ventilation, inadequate sanitation, and the buildup of urine and feces were also so extreme they triggered nausea in government inspectors, who have repeatedly cited Ridglan for state and federal violations. And all this suffering is before the dogs become unwilling subjects in painful laboratory experiments.
Here’s the kicker: Ridglan’s beagle abuse is subsidized with millions of our tax dollars. Colleges, universities and private laboratories across the country use taxpayer dollars to purchase puppies from Ridglan for experimentation. Beagles from Ridglan have been used in tests funded with federal dollars by the @NIH and other agencies, including the @NSF, @Interior and @USDA.
Experimenters at Colorado St University used state funds and federal dollars from the NIH to buy female dogsfrom Ridglan, infect them with COVID, and then kill and dissect them.
An NIH-funded laboratory at the University of Missouri-Columbia has purchased dozens of beagles from Ridglan and glued containers filled with hundreds of ticks to their bare skin. Records obtained by the White Coat Waste through Missouri’s Sunshine Law show that the beagles suffer fevers, skin lesions and weight loss in the ongoing experiments. Some of the dogs from Ridglan have been subjected to extremely painful experiments where pain relief is denied. The documents state beagles were chosen because “it is easy to work with this breed” and they are “commercially available.”
Other records obtained by White Coat Waste via a Freedom of Information Act request to the NIH show another laboratory procured 38 beagles from Ridglan and forced them to inhale increasingly large doses of an experimental compound through a face mask for up to 60 minutes at a time, as frequently as twice daily for two weeks. All the dogs were killed at the end of the testing.
During the COVID pandemic, Ridglan even received two fully forgiven loans from the @SBAgov totaling $441,000.
An October 2024 national poll of 1,379 adults found that seven in 10 Americans want Congress to cut dog testing. Over 80% of people said they oppose debarking, drug testing and other common practices dogs are subjected to in laboratories.
Fortunately, cracking down on inhumane and outdated dog testing is a nonpartisan issue with support across the political spectrum. At a recent @GOPoversight hearing about animal testing, Colorado @RepBoebert, (R-CO)—a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus — harshly criticized government funding for dog experimentation.
Progressive @RepJoeNeguse (D-CO) has also supported efforts to defund deadly testing on dogs. And renowned scholars like Jane Goodall and the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Marc Bekoff have recently called to end government funding for dog experimentation.
Taxpayers should not be propping up companies like Ridglan that break the law and abuse dogs.
Justin Marceau is a professor of law, the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy, and faculty director of the Animal Law Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Jared Goodman is general counsel and chief operating officer at White Coat Waste
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has reintroduced Violet’s Law, a bill named after a dog saved from a taxpayer-funded experimentation lab by White Coat Waste Project and requires all federal labs to allow animals to be retired and adopted out when testing ends. https://t.co/EFVi1Iq16V