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Trump's EPA Just Dropped the Hammer on Animal Testing — Fauci's Beagle Torture Days Are Officially Numbered

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just expanded the agency's arsenal against animal testing by adding 13 new "cutting-edge" testing methods designed to replace the barbaric practice of poisoning puppies and electrocuting mice in the name of "science." The move is the latest step in the Trump administration's push to eliminate all mammalian animal testing at the EPA by 2035 — a goal first set during Trump's first term in 2019 that the Biden administration quietly tried to kill.

But sure, tell us again how Democrats are the compassionate ones.

The new methods, called New Approach Methods — or NAMs — are described by the EPA as "high-quality alternatives" to animal studies. They target testing on vertebrate mammals including rabbits, mice, rats, and dogs. According to Blaze News, the EPA declared it is accelerating what Zeldin called "the shift to modern, gold-standard science — without the use of animal testing — by using new, innovative methods to review chemicals."

This isn't some vague pledge scribbled on a napkin at a fundraiser. Zeldin signed the commitment himself. "I just signed and announced the Trump EPA's decision to END animal testing on mammals by 2035," Zeldin said. "This 2035 date is viewed as more than just a goal. It is a deadline that absolutely can and must be met."

Deadline. Not suggestion. Not aspiration. Deadline.

For those who need a refresher on why this matters, let's rewind to 2021 when the White Coat Waste Project — led by founder and president Anthony Bellotti — pulled back the curtain on federally funded experiments that would make a horror movie director wince. Under then-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci's watch, taxpayer dollars funded experiments where beagles were locked in cages with sand flies, force-fed experimental drugs, and subjected to conditions no living creature should endure. The scandal sparked a national outcry — and rightly so.

The numbers here are staggering. As of 2018, the EPA was abusing roughly 20,000 rabbits, mice, and other animals annually in experiments. The U.S. government's total animal testing budget? A cool $20 billion per year. Your tax dollars, torturing animals so bureaucrats could check boxes on outdated regulatory forms.

More than 4,000 beagles were rescued from a single Virginia research center in 2022. One of those beagles, a dog named Oliver who was rescued from Fauci's lab supplier, has become something of a rock star inside EPA headquarters. If that doesn't tell you the tide has turned, nothing will.

Rep. Michael Cloud has been a congressional leader in the push to end dog-testing mandates at the EPA, and the agency is now targeting the end of 2026 to stop forcing companies to poison puppies with chemicals as part of their regulatory compliance. Former EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, who first launched the 2035 initiative, returned as a volunteer adviser to the White Coat Waste Project to keep the pressure on.

"Honored to join Administrator Zeldin and my friends at White Coat Waste as Admin Zeldin reaffirmed the ban on animal testing at EPA," Wheeler said.

And here's the part that should make every American furious — the Biden administration actively sabotaged this progress. When Biden took office, his EPA canceled the phase-out compliance deadlines that Trump's first term had established. They didn't replace them with something better. They didn't offer an alternative timeline. They just killed the deadlines and let the animal torture continue. So much for "following the science."

The EPA has already proven these alternatives work. In one case alone, 1,600 mice and rats were spared from experiments involving dibutyl phthalate and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate testing by using the new methods instead. The agency's Research Triangle Park lab in North Carolina even has an adoption program for lab animals — because under Trump's EPA, the goal isn't just to stop the cruelty but to give these animals an actual life afterward.

This is what the Make America Healthy Again agenda looks like in practice. Not press conferences. Not hashtags. Signed commitments, hard deadlines, and 13 new testing methods that prove you don't have to electrocute a beagle to figure out if paint is toxic.

Fauci's legacy is cruelty wrapped in a lab coat. Trump's EPA is unwrapping it — one rescued puppy at a time.

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