In yet another major victory for fiscal sanity and animal welfare under President Trump, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has officially shut down its primate laboratories that were imprisoning and experimenting on hundreds of monkeys on the taxpayer dime.

The CDC confirmed the shutdown today, and Science magazine was the first to report it.

The decisive action comes directly from aggressive advocacy and behind-the-scenes work by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a watchdog group that has been partnering with the Trump administration to cut wasteful, cruel government animal testing since his first term in 2017.

WCW President and Founder Anthony Bellotti gave The Gateway Pundit the following statement celebrating the win:

"This is another historic White Coat Waste victory — and we couldn't be prouder to have worked with the Trump Administration to cut CDC's government monkey business. Secretary Kennedy has now delivered on his promise to work with White Coat Waste by completely shutting down the CDC's primate labs, where hundreds of victims were infected with smallpox, hemorrhagic fevers, hepatitis, and HIV-like viruses at taxpayer expense. Gateway Pundit's reporting on White Coat Waste's transgender monkey testing investigation was pivotal in making primate testing cuts a priority for the Trump administration. 

 During the first Trump Administration, a White Coat Waste investigation and campaign also prompted the FDA to end wasteful nicotine addiction tests on baby monkeys and — for the first time ever — retire the primates to a sanctuary.  We've been working with Trump's HHS to secure the same reprieve for as many CDC lab survivors as possible, which White Coat Waste has been urging the agency to do for years.