We at White Coat Waste Project are huge fans of government transparency. We’ve always said that taxpayers have a right to know how our money is being spent. But transparency is more than just good policy — it’s also the law. One of the most long-standing government transparency laws is called the “Stevens Amendment,” which […]
Mace writes to Fauci about “Monkey Island” https://t.co/cU5018KVTu pic.twitter.com/4Cz3XCDcGy — The Hill (@thehill) December 1, 2021 There are some things you never want to find in your yard. Sinkholes. Skeletons. Booby traps. But if you’re South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose congressional district includes the state’s coastal islands, there’s something else you don’t want to […]
Off the southeast coast of South Carolina lies Morgan Island. This small, desolate marshland is uninhabited by humans, but home to a vibrant community of thousands of monkeys, earning it the nickname ‘Monkey Island’ from Atlas Obscura and others. Don’t start making any travel plans, though. Unauthorized visitors are strictly prohibited from setting foot […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded animal experiments in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Back in June, we reported how—following WCW’s grassroots campaigning and lobbying—the VA released its plan to phase-out experiments on dogs, cats and primates by 2025. This is the […]
UPDATE (7/29/21): This legislation has been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits action by the Senate. Original post Following WCW’s years-long campaign, a key U.S. House funding panel has just voted to completely defund ALL painful dog and cat testing at the Department of Veterans Affairs. This major move forward comes after […]
Since 2016, we’ve been working to find, expose and defund expensive, wasteful and painful taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies and kittens in labs run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Thanks to our investigations, lobbying and advocacy from our 3 million members, we’ve successfully exposed and shut down cruel VA dog and cat labs—including the […]
>Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the most wasteful of them all? Here at WCW, we ask ourselves this question *all the freaking time*. So we’ve started a brand new thing… we call it the “Waste of the Week” (W.O.W.)! Washington ends every year with more than $800 billion of its budget unspent, yet begins […]
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 […]
UPDATE December 30, 2020: As a result of our investigation, Congress has directed the NIH to commission an independent study by the National Academies of the NIH’s intramural primate testing and how modern alternatives can reduce their use. This direction is in the NIH’s 2021 funding bill (see page 69). You can read more about […]
Taxpayers have a right to know how our money is being spent, and people in Maryland will certainly rethink their support for the Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health (NIH) when they see White Coat Waste Project’s (WCW) new ad campaign. In November 2019, public transit officials in Maryland unlawfully rejected WCW ads exposing how the […]
