The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has pledged to eliminate animal testing, reinstating a plan originally introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term.
This decision comes after taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed the Biden administration’s cancellation of the earlier initiative, which aimed to phase out testing on mammals by 2035.
The original 2019 plan, under then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, intended to implement a 30% reduction in mammal testing by 2025 and a complete elimination by 2035.
This plan was hailed as the most comprehensive effort in U.S. government history to end taxpayer-funded animal experiments, which is supported by millions of Americans across the political spectrum. Unfortunately, a WCW investigation in 2023 revealed that the Biden EPA had quietly canceled the plan and resumed tests on animals.
White Coat Waste uncovered how the Biden EPA was doing animal experiments for “environmental justice,” forcing animals to inhale simulated wildfire smoke and emissions from rifles and handguns.
The agency also killed rabbits after they were used for testing, despite WCW offering to rehome them.
Reinstating this policy has been one of WCW’s top priorities for the new Trump Administration.
Under the leadership of newly appointed Administrator Lee Zeldin, the EPA will now revive and enforce the phase-out.
In a statement to the Washington Times, the EPA said, “Under President Trump’s first term, EPA signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing and committed to reducing testing on mammals by 30 percent by 2025 and to eliminate it completely by 2035. The Biden Administration halted progress on these efforts by delaying compliance deadlines. Administrator Zeldin is wholly committed to getting the agency back on track to eliminating animal testing.”
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit:
“I’ve been working to revive President Trump’s plan to eliminate the EPA’s cruel and outdated animal testing. I applaud the commitment of my friend EPA Administrator Zeldin to bring President Trump’s plan back after it was senselessly canceled by the Biden-Harris Administration. Reinstating the Trump EPA plan will save tens of millions of taxpayer dollars and spare countless dogs, rabbits and other animals from painful and unnecessary experiments that can be replaced with modern alternatives that are more effective than antiquated animal testing methods.”
In 2019, PETA tried to take credit for the original Trump administration win despite the fact that it was due to the work of WCW.
Even more egregiously, as The Gateway Pundit previously reported, in November 2021, PETA lied and tweeted, “Unfortunately, Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation.”
Unfortunately, Trump did nothing to stop animal experimentation. But right now, Biden has the opportunity to do just that. He must appoint a new NIH director who is competent, cares about actual science, and doesn’t needlessly abuse animals. https://t.co/Nchsc5jlj9
— PETA (@peta) November 10, 2021
When the Biden EPA first quietly removed the 2025 and 2035 deadlines from its animal testing plan in 2021, PETA not only didn’t mention it but praised the agency.
Despite the high-profile press about WCW uncovering the rollback of the Trump plan, PETA never said a word to the press or its members about Biden’s EPA canceling the phaseout and plans to retire the animals. Their only reference to any change was, “In 2019, the EPA released a Work Plan (updated in 2021) outlining concrete steps it would take to reduce toxicity testing on animals and prioritize non-animal testing methods.”
Instead, PETA continued pouring praise on the agency throughout the Biden administration.
Unlike the leftist lunatics over at PETA, White Coat Waste has been stacking up the wins with Trump and DOGE.
Thanks to WCW’s investigations, President Trump has now cut 10 NIH grants that funded transgender animal experiments.
Elon Musk and Joe Rogan recently discussed WCW’s investigations of NIH funding for transgender animal experiments and Fauci’s beagle tests—a story Gateway Pundit first broke in 2021—as egregious examples of government waste. Musk commented that these taxpayer-funded labs are “mutilating animals in demented studies that are like the worst thing you can imagine from a horror show.”
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