Dogs on meth, 'binge drinking ferrets' featured in Rand Paul's Festivus report on wasteful spending
Long after NIAID director's retirement, Anthony Fauci's beagle experiments are "still funded by three different Fauci-era NIAID grants which have cost taxpayers over $13.8 million so far," says report informed by anti-testing watchdog.
By Greg Piper
Published: December 23, 2025 11:57am
The federal government spent tens of millions of dollars on gruesome and pointless experiments on animals from dogs to dolphins, according to 2025's "Festivus" report by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., which uses the Seinfeld-invented Dec. 23 holiday to catalog more than $1.6 trillion in what he perceives as wasteful government spending.
Paul especially highlights animal experiments in the report, which credits investigations by the anti-animal testing White Coat Waste Project for bringing several to his attention. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also credited WCW and Paul with exposing the Navy's sodomization of cats in last year's Festivus report.
The National Institutes of Health has spent another $2.9 million giving beagles cocaine since they were featured in Paul's 2022 Festivus report and "has added methamphetamine injections to the mix," WCW said in reviewing its contributions to Paul's report.
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci's experiments on beagle puppies are "still funded by three different Fauci-era NIAID grants which have cost taxpayers over $13.8 million so far," Paul's report says.
Carried out at the University of Missouri, researchers expose puppies to ticks "by having capsules full of the arachnids glued to their bare skin to infect the dogs with illnesses like Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever," and WCW's documentation shows "dozens of the puppies are intentionally denied pain relief so that it does not interact with the infection or experimental vaccines."
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