In yet another stunning example of government waste, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has uncovered that more than $240 million of taxpayer dollars were funneled into bizarre transgender surgeries and treatments—not on humans, but on animals—under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci. The revelation comes as former President Trump intensifies efforts to cut excessive and reckless federal spending.

The White Coat Waste Project (WCW), a leading taxpayer watchdog, has long warned about such wasteful research. Now, thanks to oversight efforts from House Republicans, Americans are learning just how grotesque and out of touch Washington’s spending priorities have become.

According to testimony from WCW’s Senior Vice President Justin Goodman, federal funds—approved under Fauci’s tenure at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)—were used to surgically mutilate mice, rats, and monkeys in an effort to mimic human transgender procedures. “These experiments involved gender-affirming hormone therapies and surgeries to analyze the biological, psychological, and physiological effects of gender transitions,” Goodman explained.

To put it bluntly, Fauci’s NIH was greenlighting experiments that involved injecting animals with hormones to observe changes in genital size and studying how lab rats respond to party drugs while undergoing testosterone treatments—all at the expense of hardworking American taxpayers.

Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), who has been vocal about exposing government waste, called the findings “insane”—and frankly, that’s an understatement. In one particularly disturbing experiment, over $1 million was spent to inject female lab rats with testosterone to mimic “transgender male humans,” only to then expose them to overdose-inducing party drugs.

Let that sink in: At a time when families are struggling with inflation and our national debt is spiraling out of control, Fauci’s NIH thought studying drug overdoses in “transgender rats” was worth your money.

Equally alarming is the lack of transparency surrounding these experiments. Goodman testified that accessing information about how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars on such research requires a near-expert level of tech skills. “You essentially needed a degree in Information Technology to navigate the federal spending databases,” he said. When asked if this opacity was intentional, Goodman didn’t hesitate: “Not at all. And it’s by design.”

This isn’t just about grotesque misuse of taxpayer dollars—it’s about accountability. Fauci, often hailed by the left as a public health hero, reportedly authorized 95% of these experiments according to WCW’s analysis. And while Americans were told to “trust the science” during COVID-19, Fauci was greenlighting taxpayer-funded gender experimentation on animals.

The Trump administration’s push to slash wasteful spending couldn’t come at a better time. Americans deserve to know why their hard-earned money is being wasted on woke, pseudoscientific research that serves no clear public benefit. How does mutilating lab monkeys or injecting rats with cross-sex hormones help American families, strengthen the economy, or secure the nation?

The answer is simple: It doesn’t.

This latest expose should serve as a wake-up call. While everyday Americans tighten their belts, Washington elites like Fauci have treated taxpayer money like Monopoly cash—funding absurd, ideologically driven projects that no sane person asked for.

It’s time for accountability. Taxpayers deserve better than this.