The Nationwide Institutes of Well being simply renewed funding for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s infamously merciless “Monkey Island” off the coast of South Carolina.
The Trump administration has been working to scrub up Joe Biden and Fauci’s wasteful spending and funding of barbaric and outdated animal testing, however evidently holdovers from the earlier administration produce other plans.
In response to the transaction history, the NIH will probably award Alpha Genesis a complete of $26.9 million in taxpayer funds to keep up the island. Managing the island has price People greater than $66 million thus far.
Lastly, we get to Dr. Fauci’s funky monkey island.
Since 1979, Dr. Fauci’s @NIH division has maintained an island that presently homes 3,379 monkeys to be used in taxpayer-funded experiments.
Managing the island has price greater than $66 million thus far (adjusted for inflation).
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) December 14, 2024
In 2021, White Coat Waste, a watchdog group working to finish merciless and pointless taxpayer-funded animal experimentation, exposed how Monkey Island confines over 3,300 primates who’re bred after which shipped to labs for lethal and horrific “most ache” analysis.
In a press release in regards to the funding, WCW President Anthony Bellotti instructed Gateway Pundit:
“Because the watchdog that first uncovered Fauci’s funding for the Wuhan lab, beagle abuse, Monkey Island, and transgender animal experiments, we’re alarmed that NIH simply renewed hundreds of thousands for extra Biden-Fauci period animal abuse. President Trump’s message is crystal clear: lower NIH’s wasteful spending. However Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the NIH employees both didn’t get Trump’s memo—or they’re ignoring it. As an alternative, Biden-Fauci holdovers at NIH are planning to open a brand new, large authorities division within the Beltway, they’re renewing Fauci payouts to animal labs the place beagles are eaten alive by bugs, and so they’re selling Fauci’s top lieutenants who champion gain-of-function. Simply yesterday, they unveiled a silly spending coverage on “options” that’s indistinguishable from the Biden-Fauci NIH—one which received’t maintain Fauci accountable or save any animals in labs. NIH’s bureaucrats are undermining President Trump. Extra paperwork received’t save beagles, and it received’t make America larger for animals. The answer is straightforward: Cease the cash. Cease the insanity!”
An estimated 500 to 600 monkeys are taken from the island every year and despatched to NIH and different authorities labs, the place they’re contaminated with viruses, mutilated, and killed.
The Submit and Courier reported this week:
About 500 primates, every bearing a numeric chest tattoo, are trapped yearly, ferried to the mainland and trucked to federal laboratories. There, they could be sacrificed to develop vaccines, prescribed drugs and medical units. They’ve been referred to as a significant a part of nationwide safety, and the federal authorities pays about $4 million a 12 months to maintain an ample provide.
The monkey colony stayed over the objections of federal officers and conservationists. It turned, within the phrases of 1 prime former state official, a “performing asset” that generated lease cash used to fund different packages and salaries.
A 2018 NIAID paper described the event of the lethal Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHFV) in monkeys taken from the island in very graphic element.
White Coat Waste offered Gateway Pundit with a photograph of one of many monkeys that was contaminated with the virus:
The company used fifteen rhesus and African inexperienced monkeys for the pilot research. In the principle research, they used a dozen macaque monkeys, who have been injected with the painful virus and killed on the seventh day of the check.
The primates from the island have additionally been used for testing associated to AIDS, polio, and even bioterrorism. Solely researchers and officers are allowed on the secretive island, which sits at 32.4774º N and 80.5195ºW. The general public is banned from coming into.
WCW additionally obtained video via a FOIA lawsuit towards NIH, revealing how NIH’s Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana tortures monkeys it receives from the island in Ebola and COVID experiments.
The NIH is paying $22.8 million in taxpayer {dollars} to Alpha Genesis, the corporate with the NIAID contract, to handle the island. This is identical firm that allow 43 monkeys escape from its South Carolina lab final 12 months.
In response to a report from White Coat Waste, “In 2024 alone, Alpha Genesis raked in no less than $19 million in taxpayer funding—all from NIH. They’ve obtained over $110 million in federal funding since 2008, together with hundreds of thousands in particular COVID-19 emergency funding and a $1 million COVID bailout.”
It’s time for one more ️ #WasteReportWednesday ️ Learn extra at https://t.co/VsSbLKRlD6 https://t.co/CbS9SMccmU
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) January 24, 2024
On Tuesday, unbiased journalist Laura Loomer reported that the NIH claims it’s going to “purpose to scale back the variety of animals” utilized in analysis, as an alternative of slicing the funding completely.
Wow! Disgrace on the @NIH underneath @DrJBhattacharya.
As we speak, proper earlier than President Trump’s speech in Michigan, the NIH quietly launched this assertion following growing stress on them to finish animal testing underneath the brand new Trump admin.
The discharge comes shortly after BOMBSHELL… https://t.co/Q4G4SuEKKd pic.twitter.com/pU9A2kCU5h
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 29, 2025
Loomer wrote:
As we speak, proper earlier than President Trump’s speech in Michigan, the NIH quietly launched this assertion following growing stress on them to finish animal testing underneath the brand new Trump admin.
The discharge comes shortly after BOMBSHELL stories from White Coat Waste, who uncovered the truth that Fauci’s abusive experiments on Beagles are nonetheless being funded underneath the brand new Trump admin, and new @NIHDirector.
This press launch launch claims the NIH will solely “purpose to scale back the usage of animals in NIH analysis” going ahead, as an alternative of utterly slicing the funding for the abuse of Beagles, the torture of cats, monkeys, and the funding for trans experiments on MICE.
I assume @DrJBhattacharya is hoping individuals are too distracted by the Trump rally in Michigan tonight to note his press launch, by which he received’t even decide to ending abusive, tax payer funded checks on harmless animals.
We have been instructed Fauci and Biden have been EVIL for these merciless animal checks, however now these identical experiments are nonetheless being funded underneath the Trump admin, and NIH received’t even decide to ENDING all of those animal abuse experiments.
White Coat Waste President Anthony Bellotti issued a press release in response, saying, “Extra NIH paperwork received’t save beagles. The one strategy to scale back animal abuse in NIH-funded labs is to tear down departments, not construct new ones.”
.@POTUS & @SecKennedy promised to scrub up Fauci’s wasteful spending
As an alternative, Biden/Fauci NIH holdovers are:
Renewing Fauci’s beagle labs
Extending transgender animal checks
Changing Fauci w/gain-of-function colleague
Defending animal checks & including NIH paperwork https://t.co/9YlAnlr5rr— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) April 30, 2025
Following WCW’s investigations, the Trump administration has lower 10 NIH grants funding transgender animal experiments.
FDA’s Move to Phase Out Animal Testing Hailed as Victory for White Coat Waste Project
Earlier this month, Trump’s Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced plans to part out animal testing necessities, beginning with monoclonal antibodies and increasing to different medication. The Environmental Safety Company (EPA) has additionally pledged to get rid of animal testing, reinstating a plan initially launched throughout President Donald Trump’s first time period.
The Gateway Pundit has contacted the NIH for remark and can replace this story if one is offered.
