President Donald Trump is choosing up the place he left off in 2020 and chopping funding to animal testing labs in China.
Days after White Coat Waste Mission famously uncovered Anthony Fauci’s funding for gain-of-function experiments on the Wuhan Institute of Virology in April 2020, President Trump went on nationwide TV and referred to as it “super waste” and stated he’d “finish it in a short time.” And he did.
Now, the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) is taking motion to de-fund different animal assessments in China.
DOGE simply introduced a collection of NIH cuts made right now, together with “$135K for a analysis grant to China Medical College in Shenyang, China.”
Whereas the DOGE submit on X didn’t embrace many particulars, WCW instantly recognized the challenge as a Fauci-funded animal testing grant they despatched to DOGE earlier this month on an inventory of over $1.4 billion in NIH animal testing tasks to chop within the US, China and different international locations.
In keeping with the NIH’s database, the grant obtained $135,000 in 2024 and a complete of $677,000 from Fauci’s NIAID. The Fauci-funded experiments at CMU concerned infecting rabbits and mice with malaria, and infesting mice with mosquitoes in order that the bugs might feed on their blood.
“We applaud President Trump and DOGE for Making America Larger for Animals and taking swift and decisive motion to chop wasteful NIH spending in merciless and unaccountable Chinese language animal labs. After what we uncovered in Wuhan, no animal testing lab in China ought to by no means obtain one other pink cent of taxpayers’ cash. Cease the cash, cease the insanity!” stated Anthony Bellotti, WCW’s president and founder and a former Republican political strategist.
CMU and its malaria experiments on animals have been on WCW’s radar for years. Final 12 months, WCW once more publicly recognized CMU as considered one of over two dozen Chinese language animal labs.
Simply final month as a part of its latest investigation exposing an energetic NIH and Division of Protection contract to abuse 300 beagle puppies per week in a Chinese language laboratory, WCW flagged CMU as considered one of over two dozen animal labs within the nation additionally nonetheless eligible for taxpayer funding.
After Trump left workplace in 2021, WCW by no means took its foot off the fuel and continued its marketing campaign to research the Wuhan lab leak and minimize funding for all animal labs in China. They’ve been working with Home Republican Convention Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to cross laws referred to as the AFAR Act to defund animal testing laboratories in China, Russia, Iran and different hostile overseas international locations.
WCW’s plan for DOGE and the Trump Administration launched in January additionally prioritized defunding Chinese language animal labs and highlighted ongoing funding for Chinese language animal labs in its latest testimony in entrance of the Home Oversight Committee.
Simply yesterday, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan mentioned WCW’s investigations of NIH funding for transgender animal experiments and Fauci’s beagle assessments—a narrative Gateway Pundit first broke in 2021—as egregious examples of presidency waste. Musk commented that these taxpayer-funded labs are “mutilating animals in demented research which can be just like the worst factor you’ll be able to think about from a horror present.”
Keep in mind when PETA stated Trump by no means did something to cease animal testing?
