President Donald Trump is picking up where he left off in 2020 and cutting funding to animal testing labs in China.
Days after White Coat Waste Project famously exposed Anthony Fauci’s funding for gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in April 2020, President Trump went on national TV and called it “tremendous waste” and said he’d “end it very quickly.” And he did.
Now, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is taking action to de-fund other animal tests in China.
DOGE just announced a series of NIH cuts made today, including “$135K for a research grant to China Medical University in Shenyang, China.”
While the DOGE post on X didn’t include many details, WCW immediately identified the project as a Fauci-funded animal testing grant they sent to DOGE earlier this month on a list of over $1.4 billion in NIH animal testing projects to cut in the US, China and other countries.
According to the NIH’s database, the grant received $135,000 in 2024 and a total of $677,000 from Fauci’s NIAID. The Fauci-funded experiments at CMU involved infecting rabbits and mice with malaria, and infesting mice with mosquitoes so that the insects could feed on their blood.
“We applaud President Trump and DOGE for Making America Greater for Animals and taking swift and decisive action to cut wasteful NIH spending in cruel and unaccountable Chinese animal labs. After what we exposed in Wuhan, no animal testing lab in China should never receive another red cent of taxpayers’ money. Stop the money, stop the madness!” said 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. Last year, WCW again publicly identified CMU as one of over two dozen Chinese animal labs.
Just last month as part of its recent investigation exposing an active NIH and Department of Defense contract to abuse 300 beagle puppies a week in a Chinese laboratory, WCW flagged CMU as one of over two dozen animal labs in the country also still eligible for taxpayer funding.
After Trump left office in 2021, WCW never took its foot off the gas and continued its campaign to investigate the Wuhan lab leak and cut funding for all animal labs in China. They’ve been working with House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Senate DOGE Caucus Chairwoman Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) to pass legislation called the AFAR Act to defund animal testing laboratories in China, Russia, Iran and other hostile foreign countries.
WCW’s plan for DOGE and the Trump Administration released in January also prioritized defunding Chinese animal labs and highlighted ongoing funding for Chinese animal labs in its recent testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee.
Just yesterday, Elon Musk and Joe Rogan discussed WCW’s investigations of NIH funding for transgender animal experiments and Fauci’s beagle tests—a story Gateway Pundit first broke in 2021—as egregious examples of government waste. Musk commented that these taxpayer-funded labs are “mutilating animals in demented studies that are like the worst thing you can imagine from a horror show.”
Remember when PETA said Trump never did anything to stop animal testing?
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