Taxpayer watchdog organization White Coat Waste (WCW) has unveiled a four-point plan for President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that could save “billions in wasteful government spending and save millions of animals.”
During President Trump’s first term, he shut down many of the worst taxpayer-funded animal experiments from here at home to Wuhan, China, with his Environmental Protection Agency animal testing phaseout.
WCW’s plan involves defunding dog and cat experiments, cutting off Chinese animal labs, restoring Trump’s EPA animal testing phase-out, and abolishing the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Our plan to Make America Greater for Animals
1️⃣Defund dog & cat labs
2️⃣Defund Chinese animal labs
3️⃣Reinstate Trump EPA animal test phaseout
4️⃣Abolish Fauci’s animal labsThanks @RepNancyMace @RepNicole @RepMTG @LaraLeaTrump @RepLuna @RepGosar @SenRandPaul for A+ leadership! pic.twitter.com/Am0gi9bCtg
— White Coat Waste Project (@WhiteCoatWaste) January 14, 2025
The organization estimates that the United States has spent $4 billion on cruel and wasteful tests on dogs and cats over the past decade. These tests include “NIH’s ongoing $5 million cocaine tests on beagles, its $770,000 treadmill experiments on zombified cats in a Russian lab (that we shut down!), and over $1.5 million it’s squandering to spin kittens around for motion sickness experiments.”
During his first administration, President Trump personally cut Dr. Anthony Fauci’s funding for the Wuhan animal lab after White Coat Waste exposed how much money was being sent there. Unfortunately, dozens of cruel labs are still operating in China on the U.S. taxpayer’s dime.
WCW recently exposed how a single lab in China has been given $2 million to test on puppies and kittens.
“Another WCW investigation unearthed how the USDA is currently collaborating with Wuhan lab experimenters on a dangerous and inhumane $1 million bird flu gain-of-function project,” WCW said in an explainer about the four-point plan. “The Department of Defense has been funding dangerous virus labs in China, too.”
Biden granted Fauci a preemptive pardon for any crimes he may have committed before leaving office on Monday.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency chief, Andrew Wheeler, worked with WCW in 2019 to phase out lab testing on mammals by 2035, but Joe Biden eliminated the plan.
“Unfortunately, within months of taking office, the Biden EPA eliminated the plan to end animal tests and retire rabbits,” WCW explained. “Now, the agency is wasting millions to make animals obese and force them to inhale truck exhaust, wildfire smoke, and firearm emissions, and making companies poison puppies with pesticides. The EPA’s main animal testing lab has an annual budget of over $100 million.”
In his first term, President Donald Trump stopped the vicious medical experiments on and torture of innocent animals as practiced by Dr. Anthony Fauci. In his new term Trump will protect the animals again https://t.co/lallNKgQag pic.twitter.com/r9Pg2sHDbU
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) January 13, 2025
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) currently has a $6.5 billion annual taxpayer-funded budget. That money is being spent on “maximum pain tick bite experiments on puppies, creating transgender animals, building a dangerous new U.S. bat virus lab, implanting human fetal body parts into lab animals, COVID infection experiments on cats, and confining thousands of primates on Monkey Island for deadly virus experiments,” according to the WCW report.
The agency spent $500,000 to turn monkeys “transgender” to try and figure out why transgender “women,” biological males, experience higher rates of HIV.
Fauci’s NIAID Spent Nearly $500,000 ‘to Turn Monkeys Transgender’
Beyond these horrors, the agency funding gain of function research in Wuhan, which many believe may have been the cause of COVID, should be enough to shut it down entirely.
Wheeler said in a statement provided to Gateway Pundit, “As a lifelong animal lover and President Trump’s EPA Administrator, in 2019 I proudly worked with White Coat Waste to announce a first-of-its-kind plan to responsibly phase out cruel, costly, and ineffective animal testing conducted by and required by the EPA. I was shocked when, instead of attempting to meet my benchmarks for replacing animal testing with superior alternatives, the Biden-Harris Administration completely canceled the plan soon after President Trump and I left office. Reinstating my animal testing phaseout at the EPA is an easy way for the incoming Trump Administration to spare thousands of dogs and other animals from painful experiments, protect public health, save tens of millions of tax dollars. I’m pleased to join White Coat Waste in this effort.”
Sen. Joni Ernst, Reps. Nancy Mace, Greg Steube, Paul Gosar, and Wheeler have endorsed the four-point plan.
Yes, @LaraLeaTrump!
“All American taxpayers want to know if our taxpayer dollars are actually going to fund things that matter, not these crazy experiments on animals that have no business as part of our federal government”
Stop the money. Stop the madness! pic.twitter.com/tYBMr8vgAf
— White Coat Waste Project (@WhiteCoatWaste) December 30, 2024
Roger Stone, Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Dr. Marty Makary, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. also support the organization’s mission.
In an op-ed for Townhall endorsing the plan, Roger Stone wrote, “In his triumphant return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, President Trump is perfectly positioned to pick up where he left off and make even more animal welfare history by cutting reckless spending that hurts animals and taxpayers.”
Anthony Bellotti, Founder and President of government watchdog White Coat Waste Project, said in a statement:
“White Coat Waste’s 100-day plan for Trump will help DOGE ditch billions in wasteful spending on federal fiascos we’ve exposed during the Biden years like Fauci’s beagle and kitten labs, NIH’s cocaine experiments on puppies, EPA’s animal tests for gun control and climate change, transgender mice, and reckless funding for dozens of animal labs in China that torture dogs and play with deadly viruses. The first Trump administration made historic progress to cut animal tests exposed by WCW including defunding the Wuhan lab that likely caused COVID, shutting down the government’s largest cat lab, cutting dog testing at the VA and launching a landmark initiative to end EPA animal testing. We’re proud to have the support of leading lawmakers, DOGE decision-makers, and Trump allies to keep up this momentum. A growing majority of taxpayers—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike—oppose Uncle Sam’s wasteful, dangerous, and cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and don’t want to be forced to pay billions for these boondoggles. Donald Trump can continue his legacy of Making America Greater for Animals by gutting government animal tests. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst said, “Working with White Coat Waste, I’ve stopped Fauci’s cruel beagle tests, clipped the wings off batty spending at the Wuhan lab, and defunded the mad scientists at EcoHealth Alliance. I’m excited to collaborate with WCW and the Trump administration to stop all wasteful spending in China and end the monkey business. Washington needs to keep its paws off taxpayers’ money.”
Rep. Paul Gosar added, “Since 2019, I’ve been proud to work with White Coat Waste to slash reckless spending by Dr Fauci and others that tortures pets, engineers deadly and incurable viruses, creates transgender lab animals, implants aborted baby parts into “humanized” rodents, and even funds foreign enemies’ animal labs. President Donald Trump can cut billions in spending and Make America Great Again by continuing the outstanding work he started during his first term to stop wasteful, dangerous, and grotesque animal tests.”
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