In a major win for animal lovers and taxpayers alike, the Trump Administration has officially shut down the last in-house National Institutes of Health (NIH) beagle laboratory — once the site of grotesque, taxpayer-funded experiments exposed during the Fauci-era reign of unchecked scientific cruelty.

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya made the announcement during a recent appearance on Fox News, confirming that the federal government has finally pulled the plug on what many Americans saw as one of the most revolting examples of government abuse in recent memory. The decision follows years of growing outrage over the horrifying treatment of beagles in “research” experiments that critics say were not only barbaric but scientifically useless.

“On the NIH campus, we got rid of all the beagle experiments,” Dr. Bhattacharya told host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday. “We’re replacing animals in research with more effective technologies like AI that translate better to human health.”

For context, the now-shuttered facility came under fire following a bombshell report from watchdog group White Coat Waste, which uncovered a decades-long history of animal torture masquerading as science. Their findings revealed over 2,100 beagles were subjected to gruesome experiments involving pneumonia-inducing bacteria, septic shock, and a brutal four-day death spiral before being stuffed into lab refrigerators. Yes — *this* is where your tax dollars were going under the previous regime.

“These were not just failed experiments — they were crimes against decency,” said White Coat Waste Project Founder Anthony Bellotti in a statement. “As the watchdog that uncovered Dr. Fauci’s beagle tests — the biggest animal testing scandal in history — we’re proud to have shut down the government’s largest dog lab.”

And the outrage wasn’t just coming from the right. Even groups like PETA praised the decision, with Kathy Guillermo, the organization’s senior VP of lab investigations, telling Fox News Digital, “We are especially happy because these last experiments involved sepsis, which we have been working to end for several years. Sepsis experiments on animals are failures.”

Credit where it’s due: this wouldn’t have happened without the leadership of President Donald J. Trump.

Under his second-term administration, oversight and accountability are finally being restored to bloated federal agencies like the NIH, where reckless spending and inhumane practices were often swept under the rug. Elon Musk, now head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), also played a key role by launching an investigation after the revelations went viral on X. Once again, it took a businessman — not a bureaucrat — to clean house.

This decision marks a sharp departure from the Fauci-era NIH, which operated with little transparency and even less regard for ethics. It also reflects a broader Trump policy shift toward restoring common sense and morality in Washington, where waste, fraud, and abuse have too often gone unchecked.

The message is clear: under President Trump, cruelty in the name of science — and government waste on the taxpayer’s dime — will no longer be tolerated. Alcatraz for criminals. No more labs for torturers. That’s what real leadership looks like.