In his annual Festivus tradition of airing grievances against government waste, Sen. Rand Paul has dropped his 2025 report, slamming billions in reckless spending – including hundreds of millions on barbaric animal tests uncovered by the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW).
For the seventh straight year, Paul’s report highlights WCW’s investigations into taxpayer-funded cruelty, from drugging beagles to risky gain-of-function research tied to China.
Paul pulls no punches in the report’s introduction: “White Coat Waste helped us uncover hundreds of millions of your hard-earned tax dollars funding labs, gain-of-function research, and brutal experiments on dogs, monkeys, and rats. That includes over $13.8 million on beagle experiments, $14,643,280 to make monkeys play a ‘Price Is Right’-inspired video game, and so much more.”
Hellbound and Down 