Not one more dog. Not one more dime.
Following years of our efforts, President Donald J. Trump’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya recently took to the airwaves and announced, “We got rid of all the beagle experiments on NIH campus.” It’s a long-awaited “Amen” moment for the millions of Americans like us disgusted by the government’s taxpayer-funded canine cruelty.
In President Trump’s first term, the government’s largest cat experimentation lab, which was located at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was shut down. And it put the Department of Veterans Affairs on track to end dog and cat testing, which it has since fully eliminated.
Until now, the NIH retained the dishonorable distinction of harboring the last deadly dog lab inside any federal agency. But the Trump NIH’s decisive action puts an end to four decades of taxpayer-funded beagle abuse.
White Coat Waste (WCW) first exposed this facility’s horrors in 2016. Since then, Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits uncovered grisly details of over 2,100 beagles abused and killed inside this NIH lab—many of them puppies just months old. These helpless dogs had their throats slit open, lungs filled with pneumonia-causing bacteria, and bodies bled out until septic shock took hold. If they survived four days, they were killed anyway. Their lifeless bodies were stored in refrigerators like garbage.
Taxpayers footed the bill, with beagles costing up to $4,000 apiece, and no meaningful results to show for it. This wasn’t just a moral outrage—it was a fiscal disgrace.
For years, we’ve worked together to hold NIH accountable and end these sickening experiments. We’ve proudly supported bipartisan amendments to specifically defund these experiments and other NIH’s in-house testing on dogs and cats.
Despite bipartisan support in Congress and backing from over 70 percent of taxpayers—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike—the Biden administration ignored our pleas to save these puppies and approved the project to continue through 2026. --->READ MORE HERE
They’re calling it the “Making America Greater for Animals” movement.
In a continuation of his first term, President Donald Trump has bolstered his reputation as the best friend of animals by canceling grants for experiments on monkeys, dogs, and cats.
With several moves, including his targeting of Harvard University research grants, Trump has recently ended several “cruel” research projects long opposed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the White Coat Waste Project.
At Harvard, Trump ended funding for grants supporting testing on baby monkeys taken from their mothers. Some tests looked at the harmful impact on developing brains when the eyes of young monkeys were sewn shut.
“PETA applauds the Trump administration’s decision to strip funding from one of the cruelest experiments ever devised and perpetrated on infant monkeys,” PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said.
Meanwhile, the Navy ended testing on dogs and cats after a long campaign by the White Coat Waste Project. The target was a $10 million Navy contract for tests on cats.
Navy Secretary John Phelan announced on X Tuesday night, “It gives me great pleasure to terminate all Department of the Navy’s testing on cats and dogs, ending these inhumane practices and saving taxpayer dollars. This is long overdue. I commend @POTUS, @SecDef, and @DOGE for bringing this to light.” --->READ MORE HERE
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