For decades, the federal government has forced American taxpayers to bankroll billions each year in grotesque and wasteful animal experiments. From implanting pieces of aborted human fetuses into lab animals, to subjecting mice and monkeys to transgender hormone therapies, to butchering beagles, bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci have treated your hard-earned money as their personal slush fund for fringe science projects that are both immoral and ineffective.

Thanks to our years of collaboration and leadership from the Trump administration, we are finally turning the tide on this wasteful spending. In just the past several weeks, we have notched major wins against taxpayer-funded animal experiments.

For instance, since 2019, we’ve been working together to uncover and stop government funding for barbaric and unnecessary animal experiments using human fetal tissue.

For years, White Coat Waste’s dogged use of the Freedom of Information Act has exposed how the National Institutes of Health has funneled millions each year into labs that implant scalps, fingers, and other body parts from aborted fetuses into mice and other animals. These sickening projects, greenlit by Dr. Fauci and others, subjected these “humanized” animals to invasive surgeries, virus injections, and gruesome deaths—all funded with your tax dollars.

The first Trump administration enacted a policy prohibiting funding for these experiments, but it was reversed soon after Joe Biden took office in 2021, and the spending has continued until now.

In early September, less than 24 hours after a new WCW investigation found that 17 Biden-era human fetal tissue grants that received $22 million last year were still being funded by the NIH, the agency pledged not to renew the funding.

This marks a major win, but there are even more government-funded Frankenstein animal experiments to fight.

Late last year, we worked together to expose how the NIH wasted tens of millions subjecting monkeys, mice, and other animals to invasive surgeries and hormone therapies to crudely simulate gender transitions in adults and kids—only to later wound, shock, and inject the animals with viruses, vaccines, and even overdoses of sex-party drugs.

The shocking investigation caught the attention of the White House and prompted President Donald Trump to publicly criticize these transgender animal experiments as egregious government waste. The Department of Government Efficiency then canceled many of the NIH grants that we exposed. These Trump spending cuts have already saved millions of tax dollars and thousands of animals from abuse.

But some other active NIH grants have sneakily sent money in the past to transgender animal tests, so we have been working to ensure that no taxpayer funding is wasted ever again on these disturbing experiments.

We had a breakthrough last week when the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment we championed to cut all NIH funding for transgender animal experiments in the agency’s 2026 spending bill.

Moving the needle against entrenched bureaucracies like NIH is no small feat. But when WCW investigations reveal the truth, and when Congress exercises oversight and its power of the purse, even the most unaccountable government labs are forced to retreat.

There’s still more work to do. The NIH wastes about 40 percent of its $48 billion budget on animal experiments, and bloated bureaucracies like this will not give up their addiction to wasteful animal testing willingly.

The Trump administration wants a 40 percent NIH budget cut, and we are trying to isolate and eliminate as much spending there as possible, starting with Fauci’s pet projects.

No more aborted baby parts in lab mice. No more transgender monkeys. We are also pressing the agency to end all of its Fauci-era experiments on dogs and cats and commit to not funding new ones.

Cutting the NIH’s wasteful animal testing is progress that pro-life, pro-liberty, and pro-animal Americans can all celebrate.

Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S., is serving his seventh term in Congress as the Representative from Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District.

Anthony Bellotti is the president and founder of government watchdog White Coat Waste.