The National Institutes of Health just renewed funding for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s infamously cruel “Monkey Island” off the coast of South Carolina.
The Trump administration has been working to clean up Joe Biden and Fauci’s wasteful spending and funding of barbaric and outdated animal testing, but it seems that holdovers from the previous administration have other plans.
According to the transaction history, the NIH will potentially award Alpha Genesis a total of $26.9 million in taxpayer funds to maintain the island. Managing the island has cost Americans more than $66 million to date.
Finally, we get to Dr. Fauci’s funky monkey island.
Since 1979, Dr. Fauci’s @NIH division has maintained an island that currently houses 3,379 monkeys for use in taxpayer-funded experiments.
Managing the island has cost more than $66 million to date (adjusted for inflation).
— Joni Ernst (@SenJoniErnst) December 14, 2024
In 2021, White Coat Waste, a watchdog organization working to end cruel and unnecessary taxpayer-funded animal experimentation, exposed how Monkey Island confines over 3,300 primates who are bred and then shipped to labs for deadly and horrific “maximum pain” research.
In a statement about the funding, WCW President Anthony Bellotti told Gateway Pundit:
“As the watchdog that first exposed Fauci’s funding for the Wuhan lab, beagle abuse, Monkey Island, and transgender animal experiments, we’re alarmed that NIH just renewed millions for more Biden-Fauci era animal abuse. President Trump’s message is crystal clear: cut NIH’s wasteful spending. But Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the NIH staff either didn’t get Trump’s memo—or they’re ignoring it. Instead, Biden-Fauci holdovers at NIH are planning to open a new, big government department in the Beltway, they’re renewing Fauci payouts to animal labs where beagles are eaten alive by insects, and they’re promoting Fauci’s top lieutenants who champion gain-of-function. Just yesterday, they unveiled a foolish spending policy on “alternatives” that’s indistinguishable from the Biden-Fauci NIH—one that won’t hold Fauci accountable or save any animals in labs. NIH’s bureaucrats are undermining President Trump. More bureaucracy won’t save beagles, and it won’t make America greater for animals. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!”
An estimated 500 to 600 monkeys are taken from the island each year and sent to NIH and other government labs, where they’re infected with viruses, mutilated, and killed.
The Post and Courier reported this week:
About 500 primates, each bearing a numeric chest tattoo, are trapped every year, ferried to the mainland and trucked to federal laboratories. There, they may be sacrificed to develop vaccines, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. They’ve been called a vital part of national security, and the federal government pays about $4 million a year to keep an ample supply.
The monkey colony stayed over the objections of federal officials and conservationists. It became, in the words of one top former state official, a “performing asset” that generated lease money used to fund other programs and salaries.
A 2018 NIAID paper described the development of the deadly Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHFV) in monkeys taken from the island in very graphic detail.
White Coat Waste provided Gateway Pundit with a photo of one of the monkeys that was infected with the virus:
One of the primates from Monkey Island infected with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Lab in Montana.
The agency used fifteen rhesus and African green monkeys for the pilot study. In the main study, they used a dozen macaque monkeys, who were injected with the painful virus and killed on the seventh day of the test.
The primates from the island have also been used for testing related to AIDS, polio, and even bioterrorism. Only researchers and officials are allowed on the secretive island, which sits at 32.4774º N and 80.5195ºW. The public is banned from entering.
WCW also obtained video through a FOIA lawsuit against 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 company with the NIAID contract, to manage the island. This is the same company that let 43 monkeys escape from its South Carolina lab last year.
According to a report from White Coat Waste, “In 2024 alone, Alpha Genesis raked in at least $19 million in taxpayer funding—all from NIH. They’ve received over $110 million in federal funding since 2008, including millions in special COVID-19 emergency funding and a $1 million COVID bailout.”
It’s time for another ️ #WasteReportWednesday ️ Read more at https://t.co/VsSbLKRlD6 https://t.co/CbS9SMccmU
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) January 24, 2024
On Tuesday, independent journalist Laura Loomer reported that the NIH claims it will “aim to reduce the number of animals” used in research, instead of cutting the funding entirely.
Wow! Shame on the @NIH under @DrJBhattacharya.
Today, right before President Trump’s speech in Michigan, the NIH quietly released this statement following increasing pressure on them to end animal testing under the new Trump admin.
The release comes shortly after BOMBSHELL… https://t.co/Q4G4SuEKKd pic.twitter.com/pU9A2kCU5h
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) April 29, 2025
Loomer wrote:
Today, right before President Trump’s speech in Michigan, the NIH quietly released this statement following increasing pressure on them to end animal testing under the new Trump admin.
The release comes shortly after BOMBSHELL reports from White Coat Waste, who exposed the fact that Fauci’s abusive experiments on Beagles are still being funded under the new Trump admin, and new @NIHDirector.
This press release release claims the NIH will only “aim to reduce the use of animals in NIH research” going forward, instead of completely cutting the funding for the abuse of Beagles, the torture of cats, monkeys, and the funding for trans experiments on MICE.
I guess @DrJBhattacharya is hoping people are too distracted by the Trump rally in Michigan tonight to notice his press release, in which he won’t even commit to ending abusive, tax payer funded tests on innocent animals.
We were told Fauci and Biden were EVIL for these cruel animal tests, but now these same experiments are still being funded under the Trump admin, and NIH won’t even commit to ENDING all of these animal abuse experiments.
White Coat Waste President Anthony Bellotti issued a statement in response, saying, “More NIH bureaucracy won’t save beagles. The only way to reduce animal abuse in NIH-funded labs is to tear down departments, not build new ones.”
.@POTUS & @SecKennedy promised to clean up Fauci’s wasteful spending
Instead, Biden/Fauci NIH holdovers are:
Renewing Fauci’s beagle labs
Extending transgender animal tests
Replacing Fauci w/gain-of-function colleague
Defending animal tests & adding NIH bureaucracy https://t.co/9YlAnlr5rr
— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste) April 30, 2025
Following WCW’s investigations, the Trump administration has cut 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 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to phase out animal testing requirements, starting with monoclonal antibodies and expanding to other drugs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also pledged to eliminate animal testing, reinstating a plan originally introduced during President Donald Trump’s first term.
The Gateway Pundit has contacted the NIH for comment and will update this story if one is provided.
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