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 […]
It’s been just a few weeks since the 2020 election ended. A few close races are even yet to be decided. We’re thrilled that White Coat Waste Project’s top waste warriors will be returning to Congress, and taxpayers agree. A new poll shows that two-thirds of voters say they’re more likely to support a lawmaker […]
The VA is spending your ???? to buy six-month-old puppies, just to cut out their hearts …and it’s happening in a secretive St. Louis lab. You are paying for it. But they DON’T want you to know about it. As first reported by Tony Messenger at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a successful (and ongoing) White Coat […]
UPDATE December 29, 2020: The VA’s 2021 funding bill has been signed into law! After WCW’s exposé of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disturbing cat experiments—and our ongoing campaign to stop the VA’s abuse of dogs—Congress has renewed its funding prohibition and restrictions on the VA’s dog, cat, and primate testing (see Sec. 247 on page 1236). The […]
The VA’s barbaric, taxpayer-funded dog testing program is wasteful, cruel, secretive, and in need of drastic reform. And it’s not just us saying it—this comes from the National Academies of Sciences. As first reported by the Washington Post and USA Today, today the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) released a comprehensive review of dog testing […]
We have some furry exciting news for you! ???? ???? ???? We’ve just won a federal lawsuit that says we have the right to place ads on city buses in Richmond, Virginia—in which we call out the Richmond VA for spending taxpayers’ money on wasteful and painful dog experiments. ⚖️ ???? ???? Federal Judge Allows […]
Over the past few years, we’ve made remarkable progress to cut wasteful and cruel taxpayer-funded dog experiments at the Department of Veterans Affairs. But the VA’s last dog lab standing has renewed taxpayer funding for some of the worst dog experiments in the entire federal government. Documents we’ve obtained through the Freedom of Information Act […]
It’s tax season, and CBS News is reporting, “Tax refunds so far this year are down by $6 billion from 2018.” Taxpayers have a right to know how their missing refunds are instead being spent by Uncle Sam, and White Coat Waste Project’s new ad campaign aims to do just that. For the next month, […]
Starting on Veterans Day, our national TV ad campaign exposing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) painful and wasteful dog experiments has hit Washington, D.C., Cleveland and Milwaukee. Now, the ads are storming the airwaves in Richmond, Virginia, home of the VA’s most horrific dog laboratories where puppies are subjected to “maximum pain” heart attack experiments. […]
This summer, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation to defund the Department of Veterans Affairs’ most painful and wasteful dog experiments. During the debate, some of the outstanding Waste Warriors in Congress who led the effort gave impassioned speeches in support of the legislation. Below are video highlights of lawmakers speaking out against the […]
