The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) is working with Republican lawmakers to push the Trump administration to end funding for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) cruel animal experimentation.
The NSF’s staggering $9 billion budget has been used to fund increasingly bizarre and painful experiments exposed by WCW, including poisoning puppies with experimental drugs, making cats obese, creating transgender lab mice, forcing primates to play Plinko, and drilling into monkeys’ skulls with mad scientists in Iran.
WCW, a watchdog group dedicated to ending the taxpayer-funded animal testing industry, has long fought to defund the NSF.
On Tuesday, Rep. Nancy Mace, one of WCW’s fiercest allies, introduced an amendment to prohibit the use of NSF funds for any research causing pain or distress to domestic cats and dogs.
BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace just introduced an amendment to DEFUND painful @NSF dog and cat testing!
Just last month, WCW worked with Rep. Mace to successfully cut funding for the military’s painful experiments on pets.
Now, Rep. Mace is leading the charge to extend this… pic.twitter.com/JtHoL3nYKj
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) January 7, 2026
The proposed amendment to Division A of the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026, states: “None of the funds made available in this division may be used by the National Science Foundation to conduct, or otherwise support, research causing pain or distress to domestic cats or domestic dogs.”
Rep. Mace previously worked with WCW to successfully cut funding for the military’s painful experiments on pets as part of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act President Trump signed into law last month.
WCW investigations have uncovered shocking examples of NSF-backed abuse, such as breeding kittens, constantly feeding them to make them obese, and then injecting them with weight loss drugs.
The organization has also exposed how the NSF has funded transgender animal experiments, which President Donald Trump’s directives have cut across the government.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, specific NSF-supported projects funded experiments where female mice were given testosterone and other hormones to mimic transgender children on puberty blockers to study how it impacts injuries to their Achilles tendon.
These tests often include altering rat genitals or force-feeding cross-sex hormones to young mice.
Other NSF-funded projects exposed by WCW include injecting experimental drugs into puppies’ eyes, deliberately making cats obese for testing at Auburn University, and sourcing beagle puppies from the notorious Ridglan Farms puppy mill, which is currently under investigation for felony animal cruelty, to use in drug experiments.
Sen. Joni Ernst has also long been working to expose and end the NSF insanity, which has even included putting shrimp on a treadmill.
Love wasn’t just in the air at @NSF, @NIH spent $230,000 to see if female monkeys were more interested in the male monkeys wearing red or green.
Turns out red truly is the color of love!
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) December 14, 2024
If you want to put shrimp on a treadmill or turn mice transgender, do it on your own dime, not the taxpayers’.
This is exactly why we need @DOGE! pic.twitter.com/XUcSGf4aud
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) March 7, 2025
The push to stop the madness at NSF also has support from Sen. Rand Paul, who used his 2025 Festivus Report to highlight the millions of taxpayer dollars being used on ridiculous and cruel experimentation. This included a $14.6 million project, funded in part with money from NSF, to drill holes in monkeys’ skulls and play a Plinko game knockoff.
In a recent Fox Business interview, Sen. Paul went as far as to say the NSF should be entirely shut down because of its reckless spending habits.
Justin Goodman, WCW’s Senior Vice President, summed up the urgency of ending the NSF’s twisted ways in a statement provided to The Gateway Pundit:
“The $9 billion National Science Foundation is the poster child for stupid spending. For years, White Coat Waste investigations —and collaborations with waste warriors like Senator Rand Paul and DOGE Senate Caucus Chair Joni Ernst—have exposed how the NSF squanders taxpayer dollars on absurd animal tests, including poisoning puppies with experimental drugs, making cats obese, creating transgender lab mice, forcing primates to play Plinko, and drilling into monkeys’ skulls with mad scientists in Iran. Despite Congress ignoring President Trump’s commonsense call to cut the bloated NSF, we’ll continue to work with the Administration and lawmakers to slash the agency’s wasteful spending on animal experiments.”
Ending the NSF’s cruel testing would build on the many historic wins WCW and Congress scored for animals under the Trump administration, including ending VA and Pentagon testing on dogs and cats, closing EPA animal labs, and retiring its lab bunnies.
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