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Hi there,

I just got off a Zoom meeting with our fundraising team…

Thanks to 1,862 White Coat Waste Project (WCW) supporters who donated, we
covered our rapid response budget to block VA payout #I01RX002316-01A1 and save
the Louisville 56.

Our public policy team is working 24/7 with whistleblowers, journalists, and
members of Congress to ensure your tax money stays out of the hands of VA white
coats in Louisville. So please stay tuned for any updates.

F.A.T. Wins: Taxpayer, your investment goes a long way here at WCW.
I’ve pasted our blog below about how you recently helped us secure significant
WINS for animals and taxpayers. Please give it a read! Hint: you and I slashed
tons of F.A.T. (Federal Animal Testing).

LEARN MORE
[[link removed]]On that note, there's something else I want to address...

I know our volume of fundraising emails can be overwhelming when emergencies
like this pop up. WCW’s grassroots fundraising strategy is so aggressive because it's the most
cost-effective way for us to fund rapid response campaigns in such a short
window of time.

It’s been a few years since I founded this organization, and thanks to you and
our powerful base of over 3 million grassroots supporters, we have yet to miss a
budget deadline.

And that’s why we WIN more campaigns — and save more government lab animals — than any other group out there!

Also, please know we understand that not everybody can donate to every single
campaign, so I hope you don’t unsubscribe from our list just because you cannot
partake in a particular fundraiser.

There are many petitions to be signed, elected officials to contact, and other
ways to make your voice heard. This stuff is KEY to our continued success… but
it’s all sent via email. So please, stick with us!

Anyway, thanks again, from the bottom of my heart. We
wouldn’t be able to do this important work without you.



Anthony Bellotti
President & Founder
White Coat Waste Project

P.S. Taxpayer, Washington may always be a cesspool of
government waste. But there's plenty of room for improvement when it comes to
wasteful spending on animal experiments. I’ve included our new blog below about
our 2022 Omnibus wins. Continue reading to learn how you and I just slashed some
major F.A.T. (Federal Animal Testing).


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FEDERAL SPENDING BILL WINS FOR LAB ANIMALS


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Taxpayer –

They say good things come to those who wait. It’s a cliché, for sure, but that
doesn’t mean it’s wrong — at least not when it comes to this year’s federal
budget.

After months of waiting, the federal spending bill for 2022 was passed by
Congress and signed into law on March 15, 2022.

The gigantic federal spending bill — called an “omnibus,” because it combines
all 12 spending bills into one huge package — contains many crucial WCW-backed
provisions that protect animals and slash wasteful and cruel animal experiments.

Throughout 2021, our millions of taxpayer advocates spoke up and reached out to
Congress — and the message seems to have been received loud and clear. Thank you!


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Back in July, White Coat Waste Project’s “ Worldwide Waste
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experiments in foreign countries — where there’s little transparency and
accountability about how animals are treated and how the money is spent.

Shockingly, these countries include nations deemed “adversaries” by the U.S.
State Department, including China (Wuhan, anyone?).

Recently, WCW uncovered hideous cat experiments performed at Kremlin-run labs
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When our report was released, Congress was shocked:


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And now, they’re demanding more information. The FY22 federal spending bill
includes a WCW-backed measure requesting information about oversight of animal
experiments in foreign countries.


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We’ve found and exposed wasteful spending worldwide. Next up: defunding it.
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology — aka the Wuhan Animal Lab — does horrible things to animals
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And, as we all know by now, its BATSH*T CRAZY animal experiments may have been
the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

Given all this…why is it still eligible
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Apparently, Congress wondered the same thing. The omnibus spending bill
prohibits the Department of Defense from spending any of your money at WIV.

It’s a good start — a great one, in fact — but there’s still more work to do,
and we’re not going to stop until every single government department and agency
is prohibited from spending your tax money at the Wuhan Animal Lab.


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Way back in 2019 — which feels like AGES ago — we shut down the USDA’s $22 million “Kitten Slaughterhouse.”
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Since then, we’ve been working nonstop to get the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) to join other federal agencies in creating a retirement policy for the
animals in its labs.

Every time we asked, however, USDA said no.

But Congress has other plans.

The FY22 federal spending bill includes WCW-backed language, directing the
agency to establish a retirement policy for lab animals when they are done being
used in experiments.


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Poll after poll has found that Americans are supportive of adopting out animals
after experimentation, instead of cruelly (and wastefully) killing them. We’re
glad Congress agrees.


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WCW’s “Broken Bureaucracy” report
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tests — and stifles medical innovation in the process.

A bipartisan array of Members of Congress and Senators, recognizing the Broken
Bureaucracy at the FDA, have spoken out about the need to cut FDA red tape …and save a whole lot of animals in the process.

The just-passed federal spending bill is a huge step forward, because it
includes WCW-backed language directing the FDA to report on its efforts to allow
drug makers to avoid wasteful, slow, and costly dog (and other animal) testing
mandates, and use alternatives instead.

There’s still work to do, and still progress to be made…but this is a giant leap
in the right direction.


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For years, WCW has been working to cut government monkey business. And if we can
pat ourselves on the back for a moment…we’ve been wildly successful at it.

We’ve exposed the NIH Fear Factory
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We’re particularly proud of what we’ve accomplished at the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). In late 2018, 26 baby squirrel monkeys were released
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wasteful $5.5 million nicotine addiction experiment.

Working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, as well as famed
primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, WCW helped ensure that these primates would
spend the rest of their years in peace and happiness. We successfully convinced the FDA to relocate the surviving monkeys to a sanctuary.
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That was the first time in FDA history that primates had been retired to a
sanctuary…and Congress is making sure it’s not the last. The just-passed
spending bill contains language directing the FDA to “prioritize alternative
research methods to relocate primates to sanctuaries.”


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This is great, Taxpayer — but you know what’s even better
than retiring primates to sanctuaries? Not doing experiments on primates to
begin with.

That’s our goal…and, with your help, we’re getting there!


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For the last several years, thanks to WCW’s lobbying, federal spending bills
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primate testing. The bills have also contained historic language directing the
VA to formulate a plan to phase out testing on dogs, cats and primates by 2025.

This year’s bill keeps the momentum going strong, once again preventing any new
experiments on dogs, cats, or primates at the VA without the express, written
consent of the Secretary. This restrictive language has effectively prevented
new experiments from starting in years.


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Last year
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on dogs and cats at the VA. While this spending bill doesn’t completely ban VA
animal experiments, it makes it harder and harder for the VA to experiment on
animals.

And with WCW’s tremendous success at shutting down wasteful and cruel VA
experiments on dogs, cats, and primates nationwide, we’re hopeful that there
won’t be any left by 2025!

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to
pay $20 billion per year for wasteful and cruel animal experiments. Every year,
we make progress — but we couldn’t do it without your help, Taxpayer.


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To stop taxpayer-funded animal tests, we must first stop the $20 billion+ in
wasteful government spending.

We find, expose, and de-fund wasteful government spending on animal experiments.
To change public policy, we unite liberty lovers and animal lovers with
hard-hitting investigations and public policy campaigns.
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