Author: Justin Goodman

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Op-ed: Pass Violet’s Law to Cut Government Waste and Animal Cruelty

Pass Violet’s Law to Cut Government Waste and Animal Cruelty Published by The Hill | Written by Justin Goodman and Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) At over $20 billion a year, the U.S. government is the country’s single largest funder of wasteful and cruel animal testing. The good news is that we’re making progress to cut […]

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Wuhan Has Fallen! WCW Ends NIH Funding Eligibility for Lab Leak Center

It’s official: Following a three-year-plus White Coat Waste Project (WCW) campaign to defund the Wuhan lab that tortures animals and probably prompted the pandemic, we have discovered and confirmed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has finally disqualified it from receiving any taxpayer funding for animal tests! This is a MAJOR win in the War […]

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WCW EXPOSÉ: NIH-Funded Lab Fed Discarded Dogs to Sand Flies

White Coat Waste Project (WCW) shocked the world with our viral #BeagleGate exposé of how Anthony Fauci and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shipped tax dollars to Tunisia for experiments in which beagles’ heads were locked in mesh cages so they could be eaten alive by hungry sand flies.  WCW also […]

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Op-Ed: Want to Cut Gov’t Waste? Fix Gov’t Transparency

Want to Cut Government Waste? Fix Government Transparency Originally published as a Newsweek Op-Ed.  Transparency is an integral part of the American republic. We can never be a government “of the people, by the people, for the people” without an informed and engaged citizenry, and Americans can never be fully informed if our government shields […]

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UPDATE: Senate Votes To Declassify Wuhan Animal Lab Leak Intelligence

UPDATED 5/26/21 As part of the bipartisan Endless Frontier Act, the Senate unanimously passed Sens. Braun and Hawley’s amendment to declassify U.S. intelligence about connections between the Wuhan animal lab and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. BRAVO @SenatorBraun! Taxpayers paid for the #Wuhan animal lab. We have a right to know! TY for making […]

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From PPP to PPP: Org That Shipped Tax $ To The Wuhan Animal Lab Got ANOTHER Pandemic Bailout Check

Corrupted lab leak denier Peter Daszak and his group EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) have gone from exploiting one taxpayer-funded PPP program—wasting millions on treacherous Potential Pandemic Pathogen (i.e. “gain-of-function”) experiments at the Wuhan Animal Lab—to bilking another, the Paycheck Protection Program. Remember when we told you that the corrupted non-profit that sent your tax money to the […]

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EARLY XMAS: Federal Spending Bill Delivers Wins Against Waste in Government Animal Labs

Our 3 million advocates spoke up—with calls, emails, tweets, letters and petitions—and Congress listened! The 2021 federal spending bill, signed into law on December 27, 2020, includes cost-cutting, life-saving measures that WCW worked throughout the year to secure and that take a big bite out of wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. CUTTING FDA RED TAPE Following […]

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Ernst tackles turtle-on-a-treadmill tests in blistering Senate speech

In advance of Sunshine Week, 2019 WCW “Congressional Waste Warrior” awardee Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) took to the Senate floor to shed light on egregious and secretive government waste, and wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments were front and center. “Folks, this is your money: So, shouldn’t you have a right to know how it’s being spent?”@brad_polumbo […]

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Federal spending bill delivers historic wins against dog, cat and primate testing

The final federal spending package for 2020 was just signed into law by President Trump. After more than a year of work with Congressional leaders, White Coat Waste Project and its two-million-plus supporters scored some historic, hard-won wins in the bill that will hold government accountable for wasteful animal tests, save taxpayers money and spare […]

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Sen. Rand Paul: NIH wasting $700K to hook zebrafish on nicotine…in the UK

While most of Washington is slowing down for the holiday season, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is escalating his war on waste as the national debt hits a record of $23 trillion. Once again, The Waste Report takes a closer look at just some of what the federal government is doing with the American people’s hard-earned […]