White Coat Waste

10/08/2026

Friendly reminder, RFK: $225 million for dog and cat experiments isn’t a phaseout. It’s a payout 👇

“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.”

📰 NIH Continues Pouring More Than $225 Million Into New Dog and Cat Experiments Despite Trump Admin Efforts to Shift Toward Modern Alternatives

By Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit

“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.

The total includes new grants and contracts, additional discretionary money for existing awards, and project extensions that keep taxpayer-funded laboratories running.

By June, White Coat Waste had identified more than $150 million, and by early September the figure had jumped to more than $225 million, a roughly 50 percent increase.

Nearly 44 percent of the identified spending, more than $98 million, went to pharmaceutical companies conducting dog tests. Another $11.7 million supported invasive cat experiments.

That $225 million-plus exceeds the NIH’s highly publicized $150 million investment in non-animal methods, or new approach methodologies, by more than $75 million.

The Trump administration has repeatedly moved federal research away from outdated animal models toward modern, human-relevant tools such as organoids, tissue chips, computational models, and real-world data.

Several agencies have already worked with White Coat Waste to deliver real results.

The NIH itself shuttered its last in-house beagle laboratory on the Bethesda campus in May 2025 after a nine-year campaign.

That intramural septic-shock program had killed more than 2,100 beagles over four decades and was scheduled to continue through August 2026, with 24 more dogs slated to die, until the administration ended it.

The Navy became the first federal agency to ban all dog and cat testing in May 2025, canceling a $10 million contract for constipation, incontinence, and erectile dysfunction experiments on cats and crediting the same watchdog investigations.

Days later, Congress also cut a joint NIH-Defense Department contract that paid for experimental drug tests on 300 beagles a week in a Chinese laboratory.

President Donald Trump signed the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act containing the first-ever congressional prohibition on Defense Department “painful research” using cats and dogs as live subjects, along with a ban on live-fire trauma training that shot and killed animals.

The Department of Veterans Affairs, already under a congressional deadline to end dog, cat, and primate research by 2026, closed its remaining primate studies ahead of schedule, ended cat experiments entirely, and slashed dog use dramatically. It was the first agency to treat lab-animal retirement as an ethical obligation.

The EPA reinstated first-term Trump-era goals to cut mammal testing 30 percent by 2025 and eliminate it by 2035, launched the agency’s first lab-animal adoption program, and expanded its list of accepted non-animal methods.

The FDA likewise announced a phase-out of animal testing requirements.

Those actions show that agencies can stop existing projects and block new ones when they choose to act.

At the NIH, however, the grant machine has not shown any sign of slowing down.

Records show a new grant of up to $2.4 million to the University of Minnesota for experiments on 60 kittens as young as two months old that include drilling holes in their skulls, injecting viruses into their brains, inducing strokes, and killing them.

A $439,016 award went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to maintain a colony breeding nearly 300 kittens with glaucoma, some of which are killed before they are one day old so their eyes can be dissected.

Vanderbilt University received approximately $3.9 million, including a new five-year grant approved in February 2026, for glucose experiments that put dogs on high-fat, high-fructose diets to induce obesity, diabetes, and liver failure before inserting catheters and harvesting tissue.

Roughly $2 million flowed to the University of Utah for heart studies that tie off arteries, implant pacemakers and electrodes, deliver electric shocks and radiation, then harvest the dogs’ hearts.

An additional $1.9 million went to a University of Missouri laboratory that infests beagles with ticks.

Temple University received $305,627 to sever cats’ spinal cords and force them to walk on treadmills.

A new $7.2 million contract supports a University of North Carolina colony breeding puppies with bleeding disorders.

Syntis Bio got $916,400 to force-feed experimental weight-loss drugs to beagles.

Dozens of Small Business Innovation Research awards totaling tens of millions more pay pharmaceutical firms to run investigational new drug studies on dogs for conditions ranging from cancer and ALS to opioid-use disorder.

NIH officials, including Fauci-fan girl Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, have said they are working to phase out certain animal tests and that much of the activity predates the current administration. White Coat Waste notes that while some projects began earlier, the agency retained full discretion over whether to issue new awards, add discretionary funds, renew grants, or extend contracts after February 2025.

Those decisions continued.

White Coat Waste, which previously forced the cancellation of nearly $2 million in planned Fauci-era beagle experiments in 2022, argues that a genuine phase-out requires an immediate halt to new dog-and-cat grants and contracts, a ban on supplements and extensions, and an enforceable deadline with measurable spending cuts rather than press releases about future intentions.

Other agencies under the same administration have already proven the cruelty can be stopped. It is time for NIH to catch up.

White Coat Waste said in a statement:

‘White Coat Waste’s landmark BeagleGate campaign already proved that NIH can cancel planned dog experiments when it chooses to act. In 2022, following White Coat Waste’s investigation and bipartisan pressure, NIH canceled nearly $2 million in planned Fauci-funded beagle experiments.

Now, NIH must stop issuing new grants and contracts for dog and cat experiments and prohibit supplements, renewals, and extensions that continue existing projects. A credible phase-out requires a clear, enforceable deadline, measurable results, and real spending cuts — not NAMs, vague promises, or press releases.

Congress and taxpayers must hold NIH leadership accountable for ensuring that its funding decisions match its public commitments.

Until the spending stops, Secretary Kennedy’s promised phase-out remains only rhetoric.

The solution is simple: Stop the Money, Stop the Madness!’”

10/08/2026

BREAKING:
RFK funded $780K animal experimentation grants with a Siberian plague lab collaborator

10/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: RFK is funding an NIH grant with a Siberian plague lab collaborator.

- A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes $779,689 in new NIH funding under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for an animal experimentation collaboration with a Russian lab that has conducted plague research with the Siberian facility at the center of a deadly lab leak controversy.

- Federal spending records and documents exclusively obtained by WCW show how, as recently as September 2026, RFK’s NIH renewed funding for University of Illinois animal experiments conducted in cooperation with Russia’s Institute of Cytology and Genetics (ICG) in Siberia.

- Records show the state-run ICG has specifically collaborated on plague research with the now-infamous Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, where a lab worker’s recent death has sparked concerns of another lab leak and cover-up.

- RFK’s NIH has twice renewed taxpayer funding for this collaboration with a Siberian animal lab — even after the Biden administration cut off research collaborations with Russia following a WCW investigation in 2022.

- WCW was the very first to expose how Dr. Fauci funded the Wuhan lab in 2020, and the first to show how NIH continued to fund and cover-up dangerous virus experiments at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, along with other setbacks for animals under RFK.

A new White Coat Waste investigation exposes $779,689 in new NIH funding under RFK for an animal experimentation collaboration with a Russian lab that has conducted plague research with the Siberian facility at the center of a deadly lab leak controversy.

10/05/2026

White Coat Waste’s latest investigation uncovers Clinvet — a little-known lab-animal dealer with ties to Marshall BioResources — supplying cats for taxpayer-funded experiments.

And the receipts are disturbing.

Clinvet previously donated cats to Cornell University for Fauci-funded COVID experiments.

The cats were infected with COVID, isolated and monitored as they suffered from the virus, then killed.

Even cats that were never infected were killed as “controls.”

Taxpayers paid nearly $1.6 million for the Cornell portion of the NIAID-funded project. A separate $650,000 USDA grant funding the same experiments has now been extended through 2027.

But Cornell wasn’t the only lab.

New records show Clinvet transferred 45 cats to Colorado State University in May 2026.

The CSU researcher receiving them previously led a $406,846 NIAID-funded project in which cats were infected with dangerous viruses, killed, and dissected.

And CSU runs its own cat breeding colony to supply animals, blood, bone marrow, and other tissues for experiments.

The records authorize experimenters to repeatedly breed cats, surgically remove their unborn kittens, and immediately kill the fetuses.

Then the cycle continues.

CSU has also shipped cats from its colony to other laboratories. Some were sold to Oklahoma State University, infected with FIV, inoculated with COVID, and ultimately killed in NIH-funded experiments.

Among those were Matcha, Morgan, Dolores, Juliet, and Pierce.

These weren’t numbers on a spreadsheet. They were cats.

And Clinvet is just one link in the taxpayer-funded pet-to-lab pipeline WCW has been exposing for years.

Envigo. Ridglan. Marshall. Clinvet.

Different names. Same pipeline.

Commercial breeders and dealers supply the animals. Government-funded laboratories experiment on them. And taxpayers foot the bill.

After WCW exposed more than $225 million in new NIH spending on dog and cat experiments under RFK, we’re taking the fight straight to the source.

White Coat Waste is working with Congress to defund the laboratories and suppliers fueling this waste — and shut down the taxpayer-funded pet-to-lab pipeline once and for all.

Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!

10/04/2026

NEW INVESTIGATION: Little-Known Lab-Animal Dealer Supplies Cats For Taxpayer-Funded Tests

• A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation exposes Clinvet, a little-known lab-animal dealer that supplies cats for taxpayer-funded experiments.

• A previous WCW investigation revealed that Clinvet donated cats to Cornell University for deadly COVID experiments bankrolled with over $2 million from Fauci’s NIAID and the USDA.

• Newly obtained records reveal that Clinvet also transferred 45 cats to Colorado State University (CSU), which maintains a breeding colony that produces cats and kittens for invasive experiments.

• CSU records authorize experimenters to repeatedly breed cats, surgically remove and kill their unborn kittens, and ship their offspring to other laboratories for use in cruel, taxpayer-funded experiments.

• WCW is leading the fight in Congress to defund government dog and cat laboratories and the commercial breeders and dealers — including Clinvet, Marshall, Ridglan, and Envigo — that fuel the taxpayer-funded pet-to-lab pipeline.

Learn how WCW exposes Clinvet, another shadowy supplier fueling cruel and wasteful government animal experiments.

10/02/2026

WATCH: White Coat Waste reveals the TRUTH behind the lies. Despite promising a “dramatic reduction” in animal experimentation, RFK has approved $225 MILLION for taxpayer-funded dog & cat labs.

10/01/2026

“PETA and RFK’s agency continue to claim that Livingstone’s primate lab was defunded… Unfortunately, their rhetoric doesn’t match reality. The lights are still on at Livingstone’s lab — and taxpayers are still paying the bill.”

📰 MAHA AND MONKEYS BETRAYED: RFK KEEPS THE LIGHTS ON AT HARVARD PRIMATE LAB

Washington City Paper
September 30, 2026

“Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just unveiled a shiny new website touting its progress ‘ending taxpayer-funded animal experiments.’

There’s just one problem: One of its biggest boasts appears to be false.

The government site claims HHS ‘cut funding to a Harvard University lab for studies that included sewing the eyes of young monkeys shut.’

Since May 2025, establishment animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has also been taking a victory lap, declaring that National Institutes of Health (NIH) cut funding for Harvard professor Margaret Livingstone’s barbaric monkey experiments. Just last week, the organization wrote that, ‘Following PETA’s exposé, protests, and other actions, NIH cut Livingstone’s funding.’

Unfortunately, their rhetoric doesn’t match reality.

The lights are still on at Livingstone’s lab — and taxpayers are still paying the bill.

Harvard’s NIH-Funded Monkey Business Continues

Harvard’s primate experiments deserve to be denounced and defunded.

The long list of abuses the NIH has funded in Livingstone’s lab includes drugging female macaques who just gave birth, tearing away their babies and replacing them with stuffed animals. Her lab also sewed baby monkeys’ eyelids shut to damage their brains and visual development. Other young monkeys endure strobe-like effects or have electrodes implanted in their brains. They are ultimately killed and dissected.

These horrific abuses are why, in 2023, White Coat Waste filed a federal complaint detailing Livingstone and Harvard’s failure to properly disclose their taxpayer funding, in an apparent violation of federal law, and calling for Livingstone to be banned from future NIH funding.

But, despite HHS and PETA’s claims, NIH spending records reviewed by White Coat Waste show four active NIH grants awarded to Livingstone for invasive brain experiments on primates. Together, they have received nearly $3 million just since RFK took office.

The latest check from taxpayers landed in Livingstone’s hands this month: On September 11, 2026, the NIH doled out $850,148 to her Harvard lab. This NIH grant—which began during the Clinton Administration—was renewed under RFK and currently extends into 2028.

That was no isolated payment. A brand new NIH grant for Livingstone’s primate experiments launched in May 2025 and received another $576,201 in June 2026. It runs through 2029 and pays for invasive brain experiments involving the “primate temporal lobe.” Another NIH grant paid Livingstone’s monkey lab $654,104 in March 2025 and is active through 2027. A fourth active NIH grant paid Livingstone’s monkey lab $615,600 last August and also runs through 2027.

These are not the records of a shuttered monkey laboratory.

The Harvard Cuts that Weren’t

PETA and RFK’s agency continue to claim that Livingstone’s primate lab was defunded as a part of sweeping spending cuts the Trump Administration made to Harvard grants in early 2025, but a federal judge later vacated the university-wide funding freeze and cuts and forced NIH to reinstate the grants. Whatever HHS attempted did not stick.

The agency can explain that legal setback.

What it cannot do is pretend Livingstone’s lab was defunded while new checks for primate abuse keep being cut. That is Washington spin, not accountability.

HHS owes taxpayers more than a stale talking point.

The Pattern Is the Problem

This is bigger than one Harvard monkey lab.

Last month, RFK’s agency placed a $368,626 order for 20 young baboons for cruel whooping-cough experiments.

White Coat Waste also recently exposed more than $225 million in new NIH spending on dog and cat experiments under RFK.

At an April 2025 Cabinet meeting, Kennedy promised a ‘dramatic reduction in animal testing at the NIH and FDA.’ Instead, his agencies keep feeding the same old animal-testing machine while advertising reform.

If HHS truly wants the lights out at Livingstone’s lab, it must stop issuing checks, publish precisely which awards were terminated or restored, and ensure the monkeys are retired to reputable sanctuaries.

The solution to the government’s monkey business is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

09/30/2026

“We have no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight. We know that animal studies are still very important and often scientifically justified.”

— Nicole Kleinstreuer, NIH Deputy Director & RFK “Animal Testing Czar”

A new report from the animal-protection group White Coat Waste Project, published September 10, 2026, claims the National Institutes of Health committed more than $225 million to dog and cat experiments between February 13, 2025, and September 8, 2026.

The group says about $98 million of that went to pharmaceutical companies testing on dogs, and $11.7 million went to invasive cat experiments. It says the total is more than $75 million above the $150 million NIH announced for non-animal methods in March 2026. One grant it flagged is worth up to $2.4 million for kitten experiments at the University of Minnesota.

NIH has said animal models remain appropriate when scientifically justified, and its rules require researchers to explain why alternatives can't meet their goals.

Should taxpayer money still fund dog and cat experiments? Tell us below.

09/29/2026

RFK promised a “dramatic reduction” in animal testing at NIH. But the latest receipts tell a very different story.

A September update to White Coat Waste’s investigation reveals that the University of Missouri-Columbia purchased four cats from notorious lab-animal breeder Marshall BioResources in October 2025 for use in NIH-funded experiments involving spinal cord injuries, open-skull procedures, forced hyperventilation with carbon dioxide, and electric shocks to their voice boxes.

And this is just the latest example.

RFK said he would dramatically reduce animal testing.

Instead, the NIH is still funding the same old abusive pipeline.

Stop the money. Stop the madness!

09/29/2026

“Nevertheless, continuing grants to one of the country’s most publicly criticized primate laboratories appear difficult to reconcile with the administration’s more sweeping statements about ending ‘cruel’ taxpayer-funded experimentation.”

Federal records show money is still flowing to Harvard neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone’s laboratory despite the NIH’s claim that it terminated funding for experiments involving infant monkeys whose vision was deliberately restricted. The National Institutes of Health is facing questions over...