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Taxpayer, look what you just did:

BREAKING! After months of excuses, delays, and defending animal labs, the NIH now says it will phase out dog and cat testing—because WCW forced them to.

Nicole Kleinstreuer said no.
Jay Bhattacharya doubled down.
NIH kept the dog and cat labs flush with cash.

But you called Kleinstreuer. You signed our petition to RFK. You held Bhattacharya accountable.

And WCW kept hitting NIH—with investigative reports, media exposés, congressional oversight, and powerful ads that finally broke the bureaucrats.

NIH didn’t change its mind. Taxpayer, you changed it for them.

Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!

Anthony Bellotti President/Founder White Coat Waste

P.S. Legacy “animal rights” groups praised Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer—even as NIH funded more labs. White Coat Waste exposed the bureaucrats—and made NIH fold. Keep reading below to see how you forced the government to back down. — AB 

White Coat Waste Forces NIH to Phase Out Dog and Cat Labs

• WCW FORCED THE PHASE-OUT. After months of excuses, delays, and defending animal labs, NIH now says it will phase out dog and cat testing—because White Coat Waste forced them to. 
• THE TIMELINE IS DECISIVE. Just 48 hours after WCW rallied Rep. Paul Gosar and 10 other lawmakers to grill NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya with our exclusive investigations, NIH reversed course. 
• KLEINSTREUER DEFENDED ANIMAL TESTING. In June, she told NPR there was “no intention” to phase out the experiments “overnight”—because they’re “very important and often scientifically justified.” On July 4, she stood by the policy and told the public to keep waiting. 
• WCW EXPOSED BHATTACHARYA’S #BEAGLEGATE. We revealed how NIH renewed and authorized Fauci-era dog and cat experiments—and funded brand new ones under Bhattacharya. Legacy “animal rights” groups stayed silent while NIH dug in. Then they kept praising Kleinstreuer. 
• WCW LAUNCHED A FULL-SCALE BLITZ. We hit NIH with 4 million targeted ads. Then we unleashed 243,486 calls and emails from taxpayers and pet owners demanding an immediate phase-out. NIH was flooded—and surrendered. 
• BHATTACHARYA BLINKED. KLEINSTREUER CAVED. NIH didn’t change its mind. WCW and our supporters changed it for them.

Just 48 hours after Congress grilled NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya using exclusive White Coat Waste investigations, the NIH now says it will phase out dog and cat labs—a stunning reversal triggered by pressure from our relentless campaign to protect pets from government abuse.

White Coat Waste is encouraged that NIH has finally committed to phasing out dog and cat labs—and catching up to other Trump agency heads already cutting wasteful pet abuse funding worldwide.

But it shouldn’t have taken our 90-day blitz of 4 million targeted ads, 243,486 calls and emails, and direct pressure from Congress to force Bhattacharya’s hand.

Timeline of a Takedown: Bhattacharya Blinked. Kleinstreuer Caved.

WCW’s pressure campaign made them do it—and the timeline proves it.

This dramatic about-face, triggered by White Coat Waste’s campaign, follows weeks of NIH Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer defiantly doubling down on funding animal labs.

She told NPR she had “no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight.” Then, as recently as July 4, Kleinstreuer insisted in a social media post responding to White Coat Waste’s campaign that it’s an “unfortunate truth” that animals and taxpayers must wait indefinitely for alternatives.

Astonishingly, legacy animal rights groups rushed to applaud and defend her while attacking us for demanding action and accountability from the government’s single largest funder of animal testing.

On June 27, this Gateway Pundit story—covering WCW’s investigation and Kleinstreuer’s refusal to phase out animal testing overnight—went viral.

Now, Bhattacharya and Kleinstreuer are playing the blame game ;and claiming legal constraints and past NIH leaders are the reasons they haven’t shut down dog and cat labs.

But the truth is—as our exclusive investigation has documented—that NIH has renewed Fauci-era funding for these labs under Bhattacharya’s watch. The Bhattacharya-Kleinstreuer NIH has also bankrolled millions in brand new dog experiments, despite having full authority to cut active grants and prohibit new ones. That’s exactly what other Trump-aligned agencies are already doing—in direct coordination with White Coat Waste campaigns.

On June 30, WCW launched this petition. We unleashed over 243,486 emails and calls from our members to demand NIH cut dog and cat tests—right now.

For months, we’ve told Bhattacharya and other NIH officials the truth: if dogs and cats are forced to wait for “alternatives”—ones that don’t exist and often aren’t necessary—they’ll be waiting forever. 

On July 4, after Kleinstreuer defiantly doubled down, WCW responded with 4 million targeted ads—forcing NIH to feel the heat.

Animals can’t wait. We won’t either

On July 7, WCW started flooding the NIH with phone calls from outraged taxpayers and pet owners across the country.

Make no mistake: the devil is in the (missing) details. NIH may have committed to a phase out of dog and cat testing, but it still hasn’t set a timeline or issued a spending freeze.

Meanwhile, working with White Coat Waste, Trump’s Pentagon cut millions in funding for cruel cat experiments virtually overnight and banned all Navy-funded dog and cat testing, and the EPA is shutting down its animal labs and adopting out the survivors. The NIH can do it right now too.

On July 8, WCW rallied Rep. Paul Gosar and ten more lawmakers to confront the NIH. 48 hours later, Bhattacharya blinked. 

This NIH campaign has been in the works at White Coat Waste for nearly a decade, since we exposed the agency’s in-house dog testing labs in our very first investigation in 2016.

From Tunisia’s sand flies to de-barked dogs in taxpayer-funded labs, White Coat Waste is the first and only watchdog that uncovered all of Dr. Fauci’s beagle experiments—and Fauci’s Wuhan lab leak funding—the two biggest scandals in NIH history. We were also the first organization to call on President Trump—and NIH—to slash funding specifically for dog and cat labs, years before any other group.

Since 2016, White Coat Waste has blown the whistle on every single high-profile pet abuse scandal funded by NIH: cat-on-treadmill tests in Russia, cocaine-addicted puppies, the Envigo-NIH pipeline, Fauci’s kitten experiments at UC-Davis, and NIH’s $2 billion foreign spending spree. Our investigations helped drive Congress, the White House, and now NIH itself to reverse course. Most recently, our nine-year effort helped President Trump to shut down the NIH’s last in-house beagle lab.

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