Sen. Rand Paul’s 2025 Festivus Report Cites Hundreds of Millions in Taxpayer Waste on Cruel Animal Experiments Exposed by White Coat Waste Project

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.

Mark your calendars! December 23rd: the annual Festivus Report is coming to town!

Join me for my favorite holiday tradition of exposing the most egregious government waste you can feast your eyes on! @Varneyco pic.twitter.com/aEvuWj11Zd

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 19, 2025

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.”

‘Tis the season for FESTIVUS

This year’s waste report tallies an
UNBELIEVABLE $1,639,135,969,608

Read the report, air your grievances, and let us know which items are your favorite.https://t.co/NY9skPZTKR pic.twitter.com/lIg65SazAJ

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 23, 2025

The report spotlights cruel testing exposed by WCW, where federal agencies like the NIH, USDA, DOD, NSF, USAID, and VA are burning through your money on pointless and painful experiments.

‘Tis the season for @SenRandPaul to air his Festivus grievances about government waste! It’s out, and it’s spectacular!

We’re proud that–for the 7th year straight–the report features wasteful animal tests exposed by WCW, including:

$5.2M to inject beagles with cocaine and… pic.twitter.com/AelrZmJQjo

— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) December 23, 2025

The spending includes:

• $5.2 Million to Inject Beagles with Cocaine and Meth (NIH): An ongoing project that’s escalated from $2.3 million in 2022, now including methamphetamine injections – all on helpless dogs.
• $13.8 Million for Dr. Fauci’s Maximum-Pain Tick Bite Experiments on Beagles (NIH): These gruesome tests continue under the former NIAID director’s legacy, subjecting puppies to agonizing bites without relief.
• $1 Million for Dangerous USDA-CCP Bird Flu Gain-of-Function Collaboration (USDA): A risky partnership with Wuhan-linked experimenters in China, raising alarms about potential pandemics.
• $77 Million for the Navy’s Outdated Marine Mammal Program (DOD): Despite congressional pressure to shut it down, the Navy keeps wasting cash on training seals and dolphins.
• $2.8 Million to Implant Aborted Human Fetal Tissue into Animals for ‘BLT Mice’ (DOD): Experimenters are grafting bone, liver, and thymus from fetuses into lab rodents – a disturbing use of taxpayer dollars.
• $54 Million to the Disgraced EcoHealth Alliance (USAID): This group, infamous for its Wuhan lab ties and gain-of-function work that may have sparked COVID, keeps getting handouts despite being debarred.
• $14.6 Million to Force Monkeys to Play a ‘Plinko’ Game Knockoff (NIH, NSF, DOD): Monkeys have holes drilled into their skulls for this bizarre “Price Is Right”-style video game experiment.
• $1 Million to Create Binge-Drinking Ferrets (VA): Turning animals into alcoholics – because apparently, that’s a priority for veterans’ affairs.

President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has also highlighted the NIH-funded beagle cocaine experiments as egregious waste.

OMB Director Russell Vought is defending delays in NIH funding for cancer and cardiovascular research, after Sen. Katie Britt and 13 GOP lawmakers accused the Trump administration of slow-walking the release of the funds. Vought tells @margbrennan the White House is “going to… pic.twitter.com/YlTlYVQ3Tx

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) July 27, 2025

Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President at White Coat Waste Project, praised the report in a statement:

“Year after year, Senator Paul’s Festivus report is a reliable roadmap of reckless spending to slash, and White Coat Waste is proud that our investigations of wasteful government animal tests are included once again.

This year’s report credits WCW for exposing hundreds of millions of tax dollars wasted on hooking beagles on cocaine and meth, turning ferrets into binge-drinkers, teaching monkeys and sea lions to play video games, and more. Sen. Paul’s Festivus report doesn’t just document waste, it helps decimate it.

Last year’s installment included WCW’s exposé of a $10 million Pentagon contract for cat constipation experiments that was soon canceled by the Trump Administration. Sen. Paul has been leading the way to get the feds out of the $20 billion animal testing business before it was cool. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”

Indeed, last year’s report led to real action.

Rand Paul’s Festivus Report Exposes Fauci’s NIH Wasting Taxpayer’s Money on Barbaric Cat Experiments with Electroshock and Brain Mutilation

WCW’s exposé on $10 million DOD cat experiments, involving shoving marbles into cats’ rears and electroshocking them, was swiftly canceled by the Trump administration.

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