Rep. Nancy Mace and five of her Republican colleagues sent a letter to the Biden administration demanding the U.S. stop funding Russian labs, effective immediately. Despite Putin's invasion of Ukraine and unprecedented sanctions against Russia, the U.S. continues to send taxpayer dollars to four experimental labs in Russia, including one in Moscow found to have conducted “horrific and barbaric experiments on 18 cats – this according to Rep. Mace’s campaign.
“These labs receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which helped fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology leading to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as horrific animal experiments in South Carolina's First Congressional District on Monkey Island,” said Rep. Nancy Mace. “The more we learn about the inhumane animal testing Dr. Fauci and NIH lead, the more disgusted we are. At least 31 labs located in Russia and China are still permitted to receive U.S. taxpayer money from the NIH that goes specifically to animal experiments – this must end. Now.”
According to Rep. Mace’s campaign, “The Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg was awarded $550,000 in 2021 for its tests on cats, which included a brutal and barbaric experiment on eighteen cats where their brain stems were removed, electrodes were implanted into their spines and the cats were forced to walk on treadmills. Other Russian labs that received American taxpayer dollars include: the Gamaleya Research for Epidemiology and Microbiology, the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy Sciences, and the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Science-Saint Petersburg.”
The letter to the White House reads, in part:
“The U.S. government has a troubling history of sending U.S. tax dollars to adversarial countries for cruel and wasteful animal research and testing. While this recent revelation is enough to make the stomach churn for any American, it is even more infuriating when you consider the fact these foreign grants are still active while Russia is despicably trying to overthrow, by military force, the government of our sovereign democratic ally, Ukraine.”
