Footage of aHouse oversight hearingin which a witness told Rep. Lauren Boebert that Fauci's NIAID funded over 90 per cent of all NIH animal experiments using human foetal tissue has resurfaced on social media.

The clip originates from a February 2025 session of theHouse Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation, where Boebert questioned Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of theWhite Coat Waste Project, about the use of taxpayer money to fund experiments implanting human foetal tissue into laboratory animals.

Goodman's responses drew significant attention at the time and have continued to recirculate online, drawing renewed interest as the Trump administration's January 2026 ban on NIH foetal tissue funding brought the issue back into public focus.

Speaking from a prepared list of NIAID expenditures, Boebert raised the issue of foetal tissue being implanted into laboratory animals as part of taxpayer-funded research conducted abroad. 'We have also sent billions of taxpayer dollars to unaccountable labs in China and other foreign countries to implant aborted baby parts into lab animals,' Boebert said from the committee floor, according to theofficial congressional hearing record. She then asked Goodman directly: 'Have you heard of that sort of research?'

BOEBERT: "Implant aborted baby parts into lab animals? Have you heard of that sort of research?"GOODMAN: "We did an analysis showing that over 90% of experiments using human fetal tissue & putting them in animals were funded by Fauci's NIAID."pic.twitter.com/Ntanh2VAn3

Goodman confirmed it. 'Yeah. We did an analysis a few years ago showing that over 90 per cent of experiments using human foetal tissue and putting them in animals were funded by Fauci's NIAID,' he replied, referencing WCW's internal review of publicly available federal grant data. Boebert followed up by asking where institutions obtained the foetal tissue. Goodman answered: 'A lot of it is happening at colleges and universities that have affiliated hospitals that perform that procedure.'

On the question of Fauci's personal involvement, Goodman went further. 'Dr Fauci ran NIAID from 1984 to 2022, and when he left at the end of 2022 it had a $6.5 billion budget,' Goodman said during earlier questioning. 'He was not just a paper pusher. He was personally involved in animal experimentation, experimenting on monkeys, giving them HIV-like viruses until the day he left NIH. He was the lead investigator on grants that were funded by taxpayers to do that.'

The figure Goodman cited at the hearing derives from a White Coat Waste Project investigation, which found that 89 per cent of all NIH-funded foetal tissue experiments involvedanimal testing. A separate 2022Fox News report citing WCW datafound that 79.6 per cent of NIH's entire budget for foetal tissue research came from NIAID.

WCW's updated analysis, published in September 2025 and detailed on itsofficial project blog, identified 17 active NIH-funded human foetal tissue grants that received a combined $21,755,292 in 2024. Sixteen of those 17 grants funded animal experiments.

Many of the studies paid for the creation of so-called 'BLT mice,' animals implanted with pieces of bone marrow, liver, and thymus from aborted human foetuses, with some grants approved under Fauci and funded through June 2026.

Source: International Business Times UK