Morning Note

Do you want to pay taxes to a government that conducts experiments on dogs? If the answer is no, we’re glad to report some good news.

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has committed to ending testing on mammals within the decade, reversing Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the phase-out deadlines. The EPA originally set the goal during Donald Trump’s first term.

“This historic goal… got ditched almost instantly after [the president] first left office,” department head Lee Zeldin wrote on X. “We are now BACK ON TRACK and already reducing animal testing across the agency, getting the agency’s animals adopted, validating new non-animal methods, and recommitting to the 2035 deadline.”

The Biden administration subjected animals to inhumane experiments like “forcing lab mice to breathe handgun emissions, making obese rats inhale wildfire smoke, and poisoning puppies with pesticides,” according to the White Coat Waste Project. None of that aligns with “American values.”

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