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Taxpayer, it’s official: wasteful spending KILLS beagles.
(Cats, too.)
That’s why Congressman Greg Steube and I just wrote a plan to cut it. Newsweek published the names of key labs on our target list.
Now, we need your help!
[[link removed]] On 2/3/25, Elon Musk shared WCW’s FOIA investigation proving NIH & USAID funded
animal testing at the Wuhan lab. Add your name to capitalize on this momentum!
Elon Musk is mind-blown over government spending on taxpayer-funded animal
abuse. Tell him you are too!
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single cat and dog lab named below.
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DOGE Can Save Dogs—and Tax Dollars
Originally published by Newsweek
[[link removed]] | Written by Rep. Greg Steube and Justin Goodman
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been driving viral discussions about wasteful
federal spending the incoming Trump Administration's Department of Government
Efficiency (DOGE) plans to tackle. Some of the most popular DOGE posts
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[[link removed]] . DOGE can save billions by cracking down on this widely opposed government waste
that hurts pets and taxpayers.
Musk and Ramaswamy recently criticized the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
for shipping $770,000 to a Kremlin-tied cat testing laboratory in Russia. In
these experiments that we first exposed in 2022
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their spines, and the zombified felines were forced to walk on treadmills before
being killed. Fortunately, following our efforts, this project was halted
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NIH's foreign spending spree on pet abuse doesn't end there. A recent investigation by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW) exposed
[[link removed]] how the NIH is currently paying a lab in China over $2 million for completely
unnecessary and wasteful drug tests on beagles and other animals. In these tests criticized by Congressional Republicans and
Democrats, Donald Trump, Jr.
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experimental compounds until they convulse, vomit, bleed or die.
In all, despite what happened in Wuhan and China's threats to our national
security, NIH still authorizes 27 animal labs in China to receive taxpayers'
money, including labs run by or linked to the Chinese Communist Party and
Peoples Liberation Army. Now that's some reckless government spending that needs
to end.
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Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch
of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in
Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, a Trump confidante,
has been tapped to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency alongside
former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
Here in the U.S., the NIH is wasting millions to inject puppies with cocaine,
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[[link removed]] cats' legs. Many painful experiments on pets first approved and funded by Anthony Fauci
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Is this how you want your money spent?
But it's not just the NIH. Right now, we're also working to end wasteful experiments on pets funded by the
Department of Defense (DOD) , which just failed a financial audit for the seventh year in a row. Its
unchecked spending on animal tests shouldn't surprise anyone.
We recently collaborated to uncover
[[link removed]] how the U.S. Army commissioned a $949,108 experiment in which 40 beagles were
forced to ingest an experimental drug and then killed for the alleged purpose of
winning FDA approval. The DOD wasted tax dollars on the dog tests even though
the FDA has stated that it doesn't require them.
We've also unearthed how the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) has wasted over $10 million on active experiments
[[link removed]] in which cats are maimed and electro-shocked for erectile dysfunction and
constipation studies.
Dr. Gerald Parker, a member of the DOD's Defense Science Board and chair of the
NIH's biosecurity committee, commented
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DOD as a senior executive until 2013, I am disturbed to learn that unethical
studies using companion animals and with no link to improving operational
military medicine were recently funded by DOD and military service funding
agencies. This must stop."
Even DARPA, which funded the cat constipation tests, admits that, "animal models have limited relevance to humans and poorly predict
effects in humans."
Yet billions in stupid spending on animal tests persists—but hopefully not for
long. National polling conducted last month found that 85 percent of Americans
oppose taxpayer-funded dog and cat experiments. Additionally, President-elect
Donald Trump's nominees to head health agencies, including Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Jay Battacharya, have all criticized dog testing
funded by Fauci and other bureaucrats.
Cutting wasteful government spending that tortures pets is a no-brainer for DOGE
to add at the top of its list of programs to put on the chopping block.
Congressman Greg Steube represents Florida's 17 th Congressional District. Justin Goodman is the senior vice president at the
government watchdog White Coat Waste Project.
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