Heres how Trump 2.0 can cut $20 billion in spending, wipe out Faucis leftover bloat and save animals

President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has elevated the problem of wasteful spending from think-tank white papers to a national cover story. With $36 trillion in national debt — more than $300,000 per taxpayer — there’s a lot of spending to slash.What better way to start than by cutting the $20 billion the government wastes every year on dead-end experiments that torture dogs, cats and other animals?Trump 1.0 scored unprecedented wins against expensive and ineffective animal tests.Here are four easy ways the returning administration and Congress can continue to save millions of animals and stop billions in reckless spending.1.

Defund painful testing on dogs and cats.COVID czar Anthony Fauci may be gone from government, but we’ve uncovered how cruel taxpayer-funded testing on dogs and cats he and other bureaucrats greenlit continues at labs in the United States, China, Canada and elsewhere.DOGE recently highlighted a number of these wasteful programs we’ve exposed including the $5 million the National Institutes of Health is squandering to inject beagles with cocaine, the $770,000 the NIH shipped to a Russian lab to sever cats’ spinal cords and force them to run on treadmills and more than $1 million spent to spin kittens around for motion-sickness experiments.Eighty-five percent of taxpayers oppose government funding for painful experiments on pets, a national October poll found.But we detailed at a congressional briefing last month that more than 60,000 dogs and cats are still locked in American labs.End it now.2.

Cut off China’s animal labs.The NIH is still funding 26 animal-testing laboratories in China, several of which are linked to the Chinese military and government.The agency recently paid one lab in China more than $2 million to force-feed and inject puppies and other animals with experimental drugs in completely unnecessary tests.And though the US Intelligence Community is concerned about China’s...