Tag: wasteful spending

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Look Who’s Talking About WCW’s New Worldwide Waste Exposé

Our new exposé of NIH’s foreign aid for wasteful animal testing has gone global, catching the attention of influential lawmakers and media outlets critical of this worldwide waste. Check out some of the best coverage below???? The National Institutes of Health has hiked spending on animal experiments carried out abroad by almost a quarter in […]

· Blog

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 […]

· Blog, Transparency

WCW warns against waste in COVID-19 stimulus bills

UPDATE (3/31/20): The COVID-19 stimulus bill signed into law by President Trump includes bipartisan spending oversight measures advocated by WCW and others, including an independent oversight panel led by Inspectors General and a public website reporting how stimulus funds are being spent. WCW is grateful to Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Gary Peters (D-MI)–the chairman […]

· #GiveThemBack, Blog, POW

2019: A Banner Year for Animals and Taxpayers

Thanks to the tireless advocacy and generous support of White Coat Waste Project’s more than 2.5 million supporters, 2019 brought historic victories in our fight to end wasteful taxpayer-funded animal experiments. Here are our top wins to close out the decade: Following WCW’s exposé and year-long campaign against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “kitten slaughterhouse”–which […]