In yet another major victory for fiscal sanity and animal welfare under President Trump, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially shut down its primate laboratories that were imprisoning and experimenting on hundreds of monkeys on the taxpayer dime.
The CDC confirmed the shutdown today, and Science magazine was the first to report it.
The decisive action comes directly from aggressive advocacy and behind-the-scenes work by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a watchdog group that has been partnering with the Trump administration to cut wasteful, cruel government animal testing since his first term in 2017.
WCW President and Founder Anthony Bellotti gave The Gateway Pundit the following statement celebrating the win:
“This is another historic White Coat Waste victory — and we couldn’t be prouder to have worked with the Trump Administration to cut CDC’s government monkey business. Secretary Kennedy has now delivered on his promise to work with White Coat Waste by completely shutting down the CDC’s primate labs, where hundreds of victims were infected with smallpox, hemorrhagic fevers, hepatitis, and HIV-like viruses at taxpayer expense. Gateway Pundit’s reporting on White Coat Waste’s transgender monkey testing investigation was pivotal in making primate testing cuts a priority for the Trump administration.During the first Trump Administration, a White Coat Waste investigation and campaign also prompted the FDA to end wasteful nicotine addiction tests on baby monkeys and — for the first time ever — retire the primates to a sanctuary. We’ve been working with Trump’s HHS to secure the same reprieve for as many CDC lab survivors as possible, which White Coat Waste has been urging the agency to do for years.While legacy groups in the animal rights establishment throw red paint, we cut red tape — and, since 2017, White Coat Waste has led winning campaigns to wipe out entire federal primate labs under President Trump. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
Bellotti cites The Gateway Pundit and WCW’s August 2025 exposé on NIH and Florida state dollars being used to create “transgender monkeys” as a key factor that elevated the issue inside the new administration and helped make primate lab defunding a top priority.
In addition, in August, Laura Loomer reported in response to the TGP article, “Secretary Kennedy, who wrote about White Coat Waste’s viral ‘Beaglegate’ investigation in his book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci,’ said he looks forward to working with White Coat Waste to identify and cut more wasteful, inhumane, and unnecessary taxpayer funded animal tests.”
EXCLUSIVE: Following @WhiteCoatWaste’s (WCW) new investigation of active Fauci @NIH grants that funded cruel and disgusting experiments to create transgender lab monkeys, HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr has exclusively confirmed to me this morning that HHS @HHSGov is working with… https://t.co/PFGonZR5mw
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 30, 2025
That investigation, along with WCW’s broader campaign exposing millions in transgender animal experiments across multiple agencies, put enormous public and political pressure on the incoming Trump team to act fast.
Here’s what @WhiteCoatWaste uncovered the CDC has been doing to 200+ primates a year with our tax $
Monkeys infected with smallpox, hemorrhagic fevers, hepatitis, and HIV-like viruses.
Thanks @SecKennedy for shutting it down! https://t.co/kjKjSa512U pic.twitter.com/qpevX86aAt
— Justin Goodman (@JustinRGoodman) November 21, 2025
On Friday, after the news of the shutdown broke, Loomer wrote, “I can exclusively confirm that White Coat Waste has been working with Trump’s @HHSgov behind the scenes to close the CDC monkey lab and place the monkeys in sanctuaries following my conversation with Secretary Kennedy back in August in which I aggressively pressed this issue. This comes after our relentless campaign and conversations with admin officials about ending abusive tax-payer funded primate testing.”
BREAKING NEWS!
TOTAL VICTORY FOR ANIMAL ADVOCATES AND US TAXPAYERS!
Following my exclusive reporting and efforts by @WhiteCoatWaste, the Trump Administration is shutting down all @CDCgov monkey labs!
In August, HHS Secretary @RobertKennedyJr told me he was working to… https://t.co/EJgDkMJV9i pic.twitter.com/p4JVmR4w3u
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) November 21, 2025
This is not the first time WCW and the Trump administration have teamed up to stop cruel monkey testing.
During Trump’s first term, WCW’s investigation forced the FDA to permanently end nicotine addiction experiments on baby squirrel monkeys and retire the survivors to a sanctuary — a historic first for any federal agency.
Now, with approximately 200 surviving monkeys still inside the CDC facilities, WCW is pressing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retire as many as possible to sanctuaries, just as they successfully did with the FDA primates years ago.
Since Trump took office again, the administration has already terminated or defunded dozens of leftover Fauci-era animal testing grants, including the notorious “transgender monkey” projects that The Gateway Pundit helped WCW bring to light.
As White Coat Waste always says: “Stop the money. Stop the madness.” Mission accomplished — again.
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