INSTANT IMPACT: Congress Introduces Bipartisan CLAWS Act After WCW’s Chinese Dog Lab Exposé

 

• Based on a new White Coat Waste Project investigation exposing NIH-funded dog labs in China, the House and Senate just introduced bipartisan legislation, the CLAWS Act, requiring annual reporting on funding for taxpayer-funded labs in China
• WCW exposed videos and other evidence of millions of dollars in cruel NIH-funded experiments on dogs and other animals in dozens of Chinese labs
• In all, 28 animal labs in China are still eligible to receive taxpayer funding from the NIH, including labs with ties to the Chinese government and military and that conduct dangerous virus experiments that can cause pandemics

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For years, White Coat Waste (WCW) has been following the money flowing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies to taxpayer-funded animal testing laboratories in China. We were the first to expose how Dr. Fauci’s gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice in Wuhan probably infected Patient Zero and prompted a lab leak and pandemic. 

WCW’s new “Seeing Red” investigation exposed how the NIH is still shipping millions of tax dollars to Chinese animal labs that are using your money to torture dogs and other animals.

Now, based on our new findings, Congress is springing into action. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Reps. Nick Langworthy (R-NY), Don Davis (D-NC), and Clay Higgins (R-LA) introduced the bipartisan Chinese Laboratory Accountability and Watchful Spending (CLAWS) Act (H.R. 9785/S. 5255) to require all federal agencies to report to Congress annually on their funding for animal labs in China.

In all, we’ve uncovered that 28 animal labs in China are currently approved by the NIH to receive taxpayer funding for animal tests. Many of these labs experiment on dogs and are tied to the Chinese Communist Party and military.  The Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Agriculture are working with Chinese animal labs, too.

The CLAWS Act is critical because existing transparency loopholes make it impossible to know the full extent of the government’s wasteful spending in Chinese animal labs.

The torture of animals in Chinese labs is not science and should not be funded by American taxpayers.

My CLAWS Act will bring transparency to just how many tax dollars are funding these shady experiments in Chinese labs. https://t.co/y2zU4TBUFm

— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) October 11, 2024

We’re proudly supporting the common-sense CLAWS Act because taxpayers have a right to know how much of their money is being recklessly shipped to Chinese animal labs that butcher beagles, poison puppies, and supercharge viruses in cruel and dangerous experiments.

We’ve been making great progress with Congress to investigate and defund dangerous and cruel animal labs in China and other adversarial countries.