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NIH’s Fauci-Holdover Animal Testing Czar Caught Lying About Funding Dog and Cat Experiments – Approved Millions While PETA Applauded

In a complaint filed with the National Institutes of Health, White Coat Waste has accused Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer, the agency’s Deputy Director and overseer of its massive animal testing portfolio, of spreading outright lies about the agency’s funding of experiments on dogs and cats.

The filing demands corrections to Kleinstreuer’s false claims that these grants “predate” her tenure and that NIH is legally “constrained” to keep funding them, when in reality, millions in new and extended grants for painful, lethal tests on beagles and kittens have been approved under her leadership.

The complaint stems from Kleinstreuer’s appearance on an official NIH video podcast last July, where she tried to dodge criticism from WCW and animal lovers by insisting, “I understand that there’s part of the extramural portfolio that exists, that predates [us]. We are constrained under the law to leave those existing grants in place for now…. But to phase them out, we are working tirelessly behind the scenes.” She even claimed NIH was creating an “action plan to phase those out as quickly as possible under the law.”

However, WCW’s detailed analysis of NIH records paints a very different picture.

Far from being relics of Fauci’s past, these experiments have been actively funded and expanded during Kleinstreuer’s watch, which began in April of last year.

According to the complaint:

  • NIH has greenlit over 30 new grants potentially involving dog experiments, totaling around $40 million. One egregious example: a nearly $3 million grant to a pharma company for lethal tests on 68 beagles, force-fed an implant for opioid treatment (Grant No. UG3DA062511).
  • More than 45 existing grants for dog tests have been extended, with over $170 million awarded overall and at least $6 million in fresh funding. This includes over $900,000 in new money to Tufts University for force-feeding beagles diet pills mimicking gastric bypass (Grant No. R44DK141341).
  • At least 3 new cat grants worth $1.1 million, including a University of Minnesota project where up to 60 kittens endure skull drilling, virus injections, induced strokes, paralysis, and death – with $486,100 doled out in August 2025 and more to come through 2030 (Grant No. R01NS140244).
  • Over 10 extended cat grants totaling more than $45 million, with at least $533,961 new for spinal cord injuries and treadmill torture on cats (Grant No. R01NS110550).

These aren’t holdovers; they’re affirmative decisions by Kleinstreuer and her team to pump taxpayer dollars into what she herself called “unethical,” “misleading,” and “resource-intensive” animal models that “hold back progress in human health.”

WCW argues that this directly contradicts her podcast spin, violating federal information quality laws that require government officials to be accurate and objective.

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PETA’s Latest Hoax Exposed: Liberal Animal Rights Group Falsely Claims Trump Funding Russian Cat Torture, But White Coat Waste and Republican Lawmakers Ended It Years Ago

PETA is up to its same old tricks, once again making questionable claims and repackaging other groups’ work as its own.

On Friday, the liberal animal rights group published a new webpage stating, “Your Tax Dollars Fund Russian Experiments on Cats—Tell NIH No More!” and posted on social media that, “a foreign experimenter funded by the U.S. government, is mutilating…cats in Russia.”

The problem is that PETA’s claim seems to be false.

The NIH hasn’t funded these cat experiments in Russia for three years since the conservative watchdog group White Coat Waste first exposed and cut the funding.

WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman quickly jumped in on PETA’s social media posts to set the record straight.

Back in early 2022, WCW obtained records showing how the NIH was funding cat experiments at the Russian-government-tied Pavlov Institute of Physiology.

The group then led a grassroots campaign and lobbying effort that attracted support from both Republican and Democrat members of Congress.

WCW’s efforts, with people like GOP Conference Chair Rep. Lisa McClain and Senator Joni Ernst, ultimately led to the funding for those cat experiments and all other animal testing in Russia to be cut in 2023.

Since then, all Russian animal labs have been ineligible to receive any NIH funding, directly or indirectly.

PETA’s misleading new webpage claiming that “your tax dollars fund Russian experiments on cats” appears to be based on two 2025 research papers that actually say they used old data collected years earlier, before the NIH funding was cut.

The recent publications PETA is relying on also reference grant funding for cat experiments in Russia that WCW already led a successful campaign to cut back in 2023. The most recent version of the relevant NIH grant documents, obtained by WCW under the Freedom of Information Act, does not mention funding cat experiments in Russia or anywhere else, nor do federal funding databases.

PETA’s new campaign appears to be based on sloppy research at best, and a blatant lie at worst.

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The Day PETA Looked Right, and Heads Exploded

Something happens every once in a while that makes you stop mid-sip and stare at the wall. Not because you’re stifling a burp; it’s not anything dramatic or historical. You need that second for your brain to catch up.

For me, that moment arrived when PETA praised work tied to RFK Jr. that aimed to end certain forms of monkey testing and limit the importation of primates for laboratory use.

Yes, that PETA.

The same group better known for shouting at people passing by, while wearing costumes, and drifting so far into odd territory that parody stopped trying to keep pace.

For a brief moment, reality tilted.

A Group Known for Noise

For years, PETA made noise and loud protests, sharing extreme claims, statements that felt designed to shock rather than persuade. Somewhere along the way, insects entered the conversation, and public patience quietly showed itself.

The organization that the legendary El Rushbo called “four people and a fax machine” — people of a certain age, do an internet search for “fax machine” — trained people to expect outrage on demand, where agreement never felt possible. People assumed punchlines when PETA supported something.

Which made praise tied to a Trump administration effort feel like discovering your smoke detector offers calm life advice — for free!

What Actually Drew Praise

What Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy pushed was an initiative to reduce reliance on primate testing by limiting imports and encouraging agencies to adopt alternative research methods.

Science, computer modeling, simulation, and non-animal testing have moved forward, already handling many tasks once assigned to live subjects.

Modern approaches promise less-to-no suffering, better data, and lower costs, which improve research and ethics and make red tape-loving bureaucrats lose ground. That proved to be a combination strong enough to break through any political reflex.

When Politics Trips Over Results

In this case, the humor sits in the source, not the policy, where PETA cheering a Trump-era move feels like cats endorsing vacuum cleaners, and somewhere in the distance, a megaphone hits the floor.

Once the dust settled, nothing collapsed, nobody combusted, and the planet kept spinning. Results mattered more than labels.

This moment feels so rare because modern politics trains people to react first and think later, where support follows teams, and opposition becomes a habit.

It’s a case where breaking that pattern seems awfully suspicious.

Regardless, outcomes don’t care who signs the paperwork.

Why Heads Really Exploded

PETA isn’t changing; there’s no grand shift taking place. The group simply approved something that aligned with its stated goals, even with an inconvenient source.

That moment alone shocked people; agreement, however brief, cut against years of predictable behavior.

Under all the settled dust, an uncomfortable truth was revealed: Good ideas survive bad company. Ethical progress doesn’t need perfect messengers. Sometimes it sneaks through cracks nobody expects.

That was a realization that unsettled people more than the policy itself.

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SHOCK SCANDAL: Fauci’s NIH Lapdog Desperately Justifies Barbaric Animal Tests as PETA Comes to Her DEFENSE

NIH Acting Deputy Director Nicole Kleinstreuer, a Barack Obama-era staffer and noted fangirl of Dr. Anthony Fauci, has indirectly responded to the backlash from a recent Gateway Pundit report by defending the continued funding of animal torture tests, with shocking support from PETA!

The Gateway Pundit report, “EXCLUSIVE: NIH Renews Grants for Harvard Monkey Lab, Fauci’s Beagle and Primate Tests,” sparked significant attention after White Coat Waste (WCW), a watchdog organization aimed at ending taxpayer-funded animal experimentation, amplified the story on X.

The article, citing WCW, revealed that despite the Department of Veterans Affairs and Navy under President Donald Trump working to end inhumane animal testing, the National Institutes of Health, led by Director Jay Bhattacharya, has reauthorized millions in funding for contentious experiments. These include THC testing on monkeys at Harvard, tick-bite studies on beagle puppies, and Anthony Fauci’s infamous “Monkey Island” project.

The article quoted Kleinstreuer saying in a recent NPR interview that the NIH has “no intention of just phasing out animal studies overnight.”

Her comments stand in contrast with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledging a “dramatic reduction in animal testing at NIH” in April.

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PETA’s 2024 Pet Slaughter (2,174) Beats NIH’s Beagle Lab (2,133 in 40 Years), But Now They’re Posing as Heroes and Offering to Rehome Lab Survivors

In a move that’s both shameless and predictable, the deceptively named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is doing the media rounds pretending to be heroes of the NIH beagle lab shutdown, when in reality they weren’t involved and killed more cats and dogs just last year than the now shuttered lab did in 40 years.

The real MVP in saving these animals was the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a scrappy taxpayer watchdog with about six percent of PETA’s budget. Since 2016, the bipartisan organization has been relentlessly fighting to close down the National Institutes of Health’s cruel dog labs.

As WCW was doing real work, PETA was collecting COVID bailout money and racking up a body count of cats and dogs, which made the NIH’s four-decade death tally look like amateur hour.

The NIH’s beagle lab, a house of horrors where these animals have been subjected to shocking experiments since 1986, was shuttered in May 2025 under the Trump administration’s NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. Over the last 40 years, 2,133 beagles were tortured and killed by the researchers there.

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PETA Tried to Guilt People on International Sushi Day, But Community Notes Sliced and Diced It Instead

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is one of the most vocal opponents of humans adopting a carnivorous — or even omnivorous — diet, if not the most vocal opponent.

Part of PETA’s aggressive campaign is an all-out social media attack that typically follows one of two strategies:

1. “Look at how great it is to eat leaves/roots/bugs.”
2. An all-out attack on your conscience and emotions.

A recent example of Strategy No. 2 came on Tuesday when a social media post from the nonprofit organization took a stab at International Sushi Day, which is June 18.

“He doesn’t belong on your plate,” the post said.

Accompanying it was an image of a sad cartoon crab thinking about a sushi maki roll.

“Please, don’t make me die for your sushi,” the crab appeared to be saying or thinking.

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