Eleven members of Congress have signed a letter requesting that the National Institutes of Health end its funding for barbaric dog and cat experiments approved under Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The letter cited Gateway Pundit’s reporting and the relentless investigations of taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
Writing to NIH Director Dr. Jay Ashcroft, the House lawmakers, led by Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, demanded the immediate cancellation of all Fauci-funded dog and cat experiments. Citing WCW’s evidence, they blasted the NIH for “disturbing” tests, including a $10 million UNC-Chapel Hill project that breeds hemophiliac puppies only to slaughter them post-experiment. “We are sending this request with considerable urgency,” the lawmakers wrote, signaling a zero-tolerance stance on the NIH’s animal cruelty.
“We are sending this request with considerable urgency because…ongoing investigations by the non-profit group White Coat Waste have documented how the NIH continues to renew and fund dozens of Dr. Fauci’s disturbing experiments on dogs and cats in labs around the world”… pic.twitter.com/pNoPGDIdN8
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) July 8, 2025
The letter cited Gateway Pundit’s exclusive report about how the NIH, under Director Jay Bhattacharya, has renewed millions in funding for controversial experiments, including THC tests on monkeys at Harvard, tick bites on beagle puppies, and Anthony Fauci’s notorious “Monkey Island.”
“Ongoing investigations by the non-profit group White Coat Waste have documented how the NIH continues to renew and fund dozens of Dr. Fauci’s disturbing experiments on dogs and cats in labs around the world, in which animals are infested with insects, infected with viruses, force-fed experimental drugs, and killed,” the letter states.
Gosar laid out three ironclad demands to dismantle Dr. Anthony Fauci’s legacy of cruel animal testing. First, they requested that the NIH immediately cancel all active funding for dog and cat experiments approved under his tenure. Second, they insisted on a blanket prohibition of all new NIH grants for harmful dog and cat testing, aiming to choke off future atrocities. Finally, they demanded full transparency, asking the NIH to disclose all current taxpayer funding for these experiments, exposing the scope of the agency’s gruesome practices to public scrutiny.
The letter was co-signed by Republican Representatives Harriet Hageman, Daniel Webster, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nancy Mace, Eli Crane, Scott Perry, Pete Stauber, Michael Cloud, Chris Smith, and Pat Fallon.
Trump’s Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs, and EPA have already eliminated such testing in direct response to WCW’s investigations. Holdovers from the Obama and Biden Administrations appear to be preventing this kind of progress at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman said in a statement provided to Gateway Pundit:
“White Coat Waste was the first—and remains the only—group to uncover and expose Dr. Fauci’s taxpayer-funded kitten and beagle experiments in the U.S. and Tunisia. That’s why we’re proud to support Rep. Gosar and his colleagues for holding NIH accountable for renewing Fauci’s taxpayer-funded dog and cat experiments. President Trump and Secretary Kennedy have made it clear: slash NIH’s bloated budget by 40 percent. But instead of following that directive, Director Jay Bhattacharya is plunging into his own BeagleGate scandal—extending Fauci’s torture labs and NIH declaring: “We have no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight.”
While Trump’s Pentagon, Department of Veterans Affairs and EPA have banned or cut animal testing in direct response to WCW’s investigations, and the FDA has issued its first-ever phase-out plan, Bhattacharya’s NIH is doubling down—approving Biden-Fauci era grants and new payouts to labs where beagles are blinded, injected with cocaine, eaten alive by ticks, kittens’ eyes are sewn shut, cats are killed in COVID infection tests—and worse. And yet, the legacy organizations—some so-called ‘animal rights groups’—are still applauding NIH. This isn’t reform. It’s regression. And the solution isn’t more bureaucracy. It’s less spending: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, a noted Fauci fangirl and Obama-era staffer, recently told NPR, “We have no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight. We know that animal studies are still very important and often scientifically justified.”
Despite Kleinstreuer’s defense of cruel and wasteful animal testing, PETA, which claims to be a leading animal rights organization, has repeatedly praised and covered for her.
Just yesterday, Kleinstreuer bombastically announced a minor technical change to the NIH grant proposal process, claiming it will “transform the scientific landscape and reduce and replace animal testing.” In reality, the new policy won’t save a single animal or cut a single lab.
#NIH and #FDA are partnering to transform the scientific landscape and reduce and replace animal testing. Tune in live today:https://t.co/wcsQIMm2lu
— Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer (@NKleinstreuer) July 7, 2025
Still, PETA is lying to their donors and falsely stating on their website and in emails that “NIH Cuts Funding for Big Swath of Animal Experiments.”
White Coat Waste responded to the announcement by telling Gateway Pundit, “Don’t believe the hype from legacy animal rights groups.”
“Yesterday’s NIH announcement doesn’t cut a single animal lab, save a single animal, or restrict funding for animal labs. Bhattacharya’s NIH is the black sheep and a big disappointment, and animal rights groups that have been captured by the NIH are giving them a pass while they dole out millions for animal torture in labs around the world.”
WCW remains the only animal advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in almost 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.
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