In a major win for taxpayers and animals, the House of Representatives just passed the 2026 Farm Bill with three bipartisan amendments backed by White Coat Waste (WCW) that cut U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding for wasteful, cruel animal experiments at home and abroad and retire animals from government labs. Great news for accountability […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) just filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense (DOD) to force the release of photos, videos, and other records about secretive U.S. military primate labs in Thailand, Peru, and the U.S., where hundreds of monkeys are subjected to wasteful and deadly taxpayer-funded experiments. The […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) testified at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship’s “Sunshine Week: Bringing Secret Government Spending to Light” hearing. WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman explained how government transparency tools, like the Freedom of Information Act and federal spending databases, have helped expose and end taxpayer-funded animal tests like […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) have joined forces and filed formal complaints with Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General Platte Moring, documenting Pentagon-funded animal labs that failed to publicly disclose their taxpayer funding as required under Sen. Ernst’s 2021 federal law, the COST Act. Read WCW’s complaint and Sen. Ernst’s letter to […]
Senator James Lankford’s (R-OK) new Federal Fumbles report highlights hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful, taxpayer-funded animal experiments exposed and ended by White Coat Waste (WCW). Lankford features WCW’s viral investigation that eliminated National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for disturbing transgender animal tests, in which mice, rats, and monkeys were subjected to […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals that American tax dollars via the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are still funding cruel, outdated experiments on dogs, cats, and rabbits in Canada. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, WCW recently followed the NIH money to Canadian cat labs at the University of Sherbrooke and […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) analysis of government spending data shows that, under Director Jay Bhattacharya and ‘animal testing czar’ Nicole Kleinstreuer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to dole out tens of millions in new funding to wasteful monkey labs, despite Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s pledges to end primate testing. The […]
Citing White Coat Waste investigations, DOGE Senate Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are demanding that the National Institutes of Health immediately cancel spending on a Fauci-funded bat breeding and experimentation lab on U.S. soil. Since 2023, White Coat Waste (WCW) has been campaigning to cut funding for the establishment of […]
