The Trump administration is once again spearheading efforts to eliminate cruel, costly, and unnecessary animal testing across federal agencies, while prioritizing the retirement of lab animals to sanctuaries and homes.
This push builds on years of advocacy by the taxpayer watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW), which has been instrumental in exposing and halting wasteful government experiments that harm animals and burden taxpayers.
In a significant victory, the Trump CDC has announced it will end all primate testing, following WCW investigations that prompted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to commit to phasing out such experiments and collaborate with WCW.
As Gateway Pundit previously reported, sources at WCW indicate that HHS is exploring options to retire the surviving monkeys from CDC facilities to sanctuaries, a cause WCW has championed since 2018.
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Effective October 1, 2025, Trump’s NIH has shifted policies to prioritize human-based research, no longer soliciting new funding opportunities focused exclusively on animal models, which indirectly supports retirement efforts by reducing animal use. This aligns with broader initiatives to allow grant funds for lab animal retirement, which was previously prohibited.
Earlier this year, the EPA revived the first Trump administration’s plan to phase out animal testing by 2035, including a 30% reduction by 2025 – a goal the Trump team has reportedly now met or exceeded, according to Breitbart.
The agency has introduced a program enabling EPA staff to adopt rats and fish from government labs and has released several rabbits into private homes.
These actions reverse the Biden administration’s cancellation of the 2019 plan by former Trump EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
WCW and conservative journalist Laura Loomer have been engaging lawmakers and officials to transform Fauci’s infamous
