Julie O'Connor

“PETA has been telling its donors that the ‘lights are out’ on Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone’s cruel infant-monkey lab, but federal records say otherwise.” via @CassandraRules @gatewaypundit thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09…

The press release says “reducing.” The checks say otherwise. 🧾 Every dollar, itemized here: whitecoatwaste.org/blog/2026…

“A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025.” 📰 NIH Continues Pouring More Than $225 Million Into New Dog and Cat Experiments Despite Trump Admin Efforts to Shift Toward Modern Alternatives By Cassandra MacDonald, Gateway Pundit “A bombshell White Coat Waste investigation released this week documents more than $225 million in new National Institutes of Health funding for dog and cat experiments awarded, supplemented, renewed, or extended since February 2025. The total includes new grants and contracts, additional discretionary money for existing awards, and project extensions that keep taxpayer-funded laboratories running. By June, White Coat Waste had identified more than $150 million, and by early September the figure had jumped to more than $225 million, a roughly 50 percent increase. Nearly 44 percent of the identified spending, more than $98 million, went to pharmaceutical companies conducting dog tests. Another $11.7 million supported invasive cat experiments. That $225 million-plus exceeds the NIH’s highly publicized $150 million investment in non-animal methods, or new approach methodologies, by more than $75 million. … Records show a new grant of up to $2.4 million to the University of Minnesota for experiments on 60 kittens as young as two months old that include drilling holes in their skulls, injecting viruses into their brains, inducing strokes, and killing them. A $439,016 award went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to maintain a colony breeding nearly 300 kittens with glaucoma, some of which are killed before they are one day old so their eyes can be dissected. Vanderbilt University received approximately $3.9 million, including a new five-year grant approved in February 2026, for glucose experiments that put dogs on high-fat, high-fructose diets to induce obesity, diabetes, and liver failure before inserting catheters and harvesting tissue. Roughly $2 million flowed to the University of Utah for heart studies that tie off arteries, implant pacemakers and electrodes, deliver electric shocks and radiation, then harvest the dogs’ hearts. An additional $1.9 million went to a University of Missouri laboratory that infests beagles with ticks. Temple University received $305,627 to sever cats’ spinal cords and force them to walk on treadmills. A new $7.2 million contract supports a University of North Carolina colony breeding puppies with bleeding disorders. Syntis Bio got $916,400 to force-feed experimental weight-loss drugs to beagles. Dozens of Small Business Innovation Research awards totaling tens of millions more pay pharmaceutical firms to run investigational new drug studies on dogs for conditions ranging from cancer and ALS to opioid-use disorder. NIH officials, including Fauci-fan girl Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, have said they are working to phase out certain animal tests and that much of the activity predates the current administration. White Coat Waste notes that while some projects began earlier, the agency retained full discretion over whether to issue new awards, add discretionary funds, renew grants, or extend contracts after February 2025. Those decisions continued. White Coat Waste, which previously forced the cancellation of nearly $2 million in planned Fauci-era beagle experiments in 2022, argues that a genuine phase-out requires an immediate halt to new dog-and-cat grants and contracts, a ban on supplements and extensions, and an enforceable deadline with measurable spending cuts rather than press releases about future intentions.”

White Coat Waste has the receipts. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a “dramatic reduction” in animal testing at the NIH. His administration announced plans to phase out experiments on dogs and cats. But while the rhetoric said one thing, the spending records tell another story. Since RFK became HHS Secretary, White Coat Waste has uncovered more than $225 MILLION in new NIH spending on dog and cat experiments. The money includes brand-new grants and contracts, additional discretionary funding for existing animal labs, project extensions, and renewals approved under the current administration. Our investigation found taxpayer dollars funding experiments including: • Drilling holes into kittens’ skulls and inducing strokes • Breeding kittens to go blind • Force-feeding experimental weight-loss drugs to beagles • Breeding dogs to suffer from muscular dystrophy and blindness • Damaging and harvesting dogs’ hearts • Infesting beagles with ticks • Severing cats’ spinal cords and forcing them to walk on treadmills More than $98 million of the spending identified went to pharmaceutical companies conducting dog experiments. And while NIH publicly touted a $150 million investment in alternatives to animal testing, White Coat Waste identified more than $225 million in new spending on dog and cat experiments — over $75 million more. Some of these experiments began before RFK took office. But the new spending did not. NIH has the authority to deny new awards, additional funding, project renewals, and experiment extensions. But it chose to approve them. A phase-out requires spending cuts — not just promises. See just SOME of the receipts, and read the full report below: