The federal, primate research funding saga continues…

In April, we celebrated Congress’ rejection of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH’s) request for an additional $30 million – in the 2024 federal budget – for nonhuman primate breeding and experimentation at the National Primate Research Centers.

Then, almost immediately, the same danger reared back up, as the NIH requested an additional $10 million allotment for nonhuman primate experimentation in the 2025 budget. We asked you to contact your legislators once again, but, unfortunately, the Senate Appropriations Committee did not heed our pleas: it recently voted to give the NIH more money – even more than it asked for, in fact.

The Senate Appropriations Committee not only approved the NIH’s request for $10,000,000, but, in what some commentators call a “shocking” move, TRIPLED IT.

The  Senate’s current 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations bill allocates an additional $30 million to the NIH for nonhuman primate experimentation infrastructure (p.151). (At present, the House bill does not include the same $30 million allocation, and we need to help make sure it stays this way!) 

And, so, we find ourselves back in familiar territory.

As so often happens in the realm of animal exploitation, we find ourselves fighting the same fight over, but that does not make it any less worthy or necessary. And, we must remain strong.

We must rise together once again in the protection of nonhuman primates and human health by imploring our legislators to oppose the allocation of any additional funds to the NIH for purposes of animal experimentation.

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