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 […]
A White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation reveals how taxpayer dollars are still being funneled to an abusive puppy mill that breeds beagles for painful and deadly experiments. Documents obtained by WCW show puppies purchased with tax dollars from the disgraced Ridglan Farms are being tortured in tests funded by the National Institutes of Health. […]
A new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigation has uncovered that the taxpayer-funded University of Missouri-Columbia (UMC) torments cats in barbaric experiments, and even egregiously obtained cats from an animal shelter to abuse as blood donors by draining dangerous amounts of blood. New records obtained by WCW expose National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded experiments at […]
Citing new White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations, Rep. Nancy Mace just fired off a letter calling on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to end all current and future National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for painful dog and cat experiments. Mace referenced new WCW research showing that, in January, the NIH doled out […]
White Coat Waste (WCW) has uncovered that the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has been breeding and maintaining a colony of dogs with genetic vision disorders for nearly 50 years, wasting over $46 million in taxpayer money. As recently as January 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid a UPenn lab to breed dogs […]
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 […]
