Trump Saves Helpless Puppies
November 1, 2018 · Web Only, Politics
No, really: Trump and the GOP are good on animal testing.
Government Waste & Animal Welfare Writer
Alyssa Hackbarth
4 articles 2017–2018
Alyssa Hackbarth is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2017 and 2018. Her articles focused on government waste, taxpayer-funded spending, and animal welfare issues, often highlighting questionable uses of federal resources including animal testing practices.
6 Ways The EPA Is Wasting Your Money
June 18, 2018 · Politics, Waste and Fraud, EPA
Congress recently voted to raise the budget caps that limited the amount of money they can spend. While doing so, they claimed that the budget caps were so tight they were having devastating and lasting consequences for the government.
Why Is the Government Still Doing Animal Testing for Cosmetics?
May 23, 2018 · Government, Politics, animal cruelty
Animal testing by cosmetic companies is becoming a thing of the past in the United States, so it might shock you that the government is still forcing taxpayers to pay for cruel, ineffective, and expensive animal tests on cosmetics in government laboratories.
Taxpayers Are Funding Animal Tests for Homemade Abortions
June 29, 2017 · abortion, Today's Blogs, Conservative Newsstand
More than 60 Republicans and Democrats in Congress are supporting a bill—the Federal Accountability in Chemical Testing (FACT) Act (HR 816)—that would improve disclosure by federal agencies about hundreds of expensive, slow, and outdated animal tests. Which is good news. Because if taxpayers and…