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President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya has announced that the federal agency has shut down the laboratories accused of performing brutal experiments on dogs.
Bhattacharya announced that the agency has now closed its last in-house beagle lab on the NIH campus.
The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk called for action on the issue.
Musk posted on X that he would investigate the funding of beagle experiments.
A report from the White Coat Waste (WCW) project detailed the lab’s history of allegedly pumping pneumonia-causing bacteria into more than 2,000 beagles’ lungs for deadly experiments.
The experiments left the dogs bleeding them out and forced them into septic shock.
Following the announcement, WCW president and founder Anthony Bellotti praised Trump for ending the highly scrutinized project.
“Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn’t be forced to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse,” Bellotti wrote in a statement.
“We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad.
“The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a crackdown in April.
The FDA said it would phase out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lee Zeldin also announced his agency would reinstate a 2019 policy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing.