National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Jay Bhattacharya recently announced on Fox News the agency closed its last in-house beagle laboratory on the NIH campus.

The announcement comes just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk posted on X that he would investigate funding beagle experiments.

A report from the White Coat Waste (WCW) project detailed the lab's history of allegedly pumping pneumonia-causing bacteria into more than 2,000 beagles’ lungs, bleeding them out, and forcing them into septic shock for deadly experiments.

Following the announcement, WCW president and founder Anthony Bellotti praised President Donald Trump for ending the highly scrutinized project.

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"Taxpayers and pet owners shouldn’t be forced to pay for the NIH’s beagle abuse," Bellotti wrote in a statement. "We applaud the President for cutting this wasteful NIH spending and will keep fighting until we defund all dog labs at home and abroad. The solution is simple: Stop the money. Stop the madness!"

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Shortly after the Trump administration took office, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in April it would phase out an animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of testing on materials that mimic human organs.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin also announced his agency would reinstate a 2019 policy from the first Trump administration to phase out animal testing.

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During Trump's first term in 2019, the administration closed the government’s largest cat lab.

Bhattacharya said People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reached out to him following the closure of the beagle testing facility, sending him flowers.

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"Normally, I think NIH directors tend to get physical threats, but they sent me flowers," Bhattacharya said on air. 

PETA in 2021 highlighted Anthony Fauci's alleged approval of funding for tests in Tunisia where beagle puppies were drugged, and their heads were locked in cages filled with hungry, infected sandflies.

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After the reports came out, 23 bipartisan lawmakers, including Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., sent a letter to Fauci addressing the heartbreaking experiments.

"Yesterday, I sent a letter to Dr. Fauci regarding cruel, taxpayer-funded experiments on puppies; debarking before drugging and killing them," Mace wrote in an October 2021 post on X. "This is disgusting. What say you @NIH."

Kathy Guillermo, PETA senior vice president of laboratory investigations, told Fox News Digital on Sunday night the organization is "delighted" by the news of the NIH facility closure.

"We are letting the new NIH Director know how important this step is for modernizing science, and we're especially happy because these last experiments involved sepsis, which we have been working to end for several years. Sepsis experiments on animals are failures."

Guillermo noted PETA has a lawsuit pending, filed under the Biden administration, to try to prevent the government from funding any more sepsis experiments. 

The Indiana-based company that bred the beagles for research, Envigo, pleaded guilty in 2024 to neglecting thousands of dogs at its Cumberland, Virginia, breeding facility, and will be required to pay more than $35 million in fines, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

"We are just thrilled to see that the [Envigo] beagles who were used [at the NIH location], will no longer be used," Guillermo said. "We first exposed [Envigo] in an undercover investigation that eventually led to the closure of the facility and the release of 4,000 beagles to good homes."

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PETA is awaiting information about the condition of the dogs that will be released, and if they are in good enough shape to be placed in a home, Guillermo said they stand ready to help.

"Dr. Bhattacharya has made a wonderful start, and there is a lot more work to be done, because animals are being experimented on, including beagles and other dogs, across the country," she said. "So we're looking forward to what comes next."

The White House and the NIH did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton contributed to this report.

Holly Madison revealed the bedroom activities she wasn't fond of during her time in the Playboy mansion.

Madison, now 45, opened up about her sex life with longtime partner Hugh Hefner while appearing on the podcast "In Your Dreams."

"Well, it’s a very different story between when we were just, like, by ourselves than with everybody else in the room," Madison said when asked if Hefner was good in bed. "Everybody else in the room, no. That was disgusting. I hated it. I made it very known I hated it."

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"But if it was just me and him, it was a lot more normal than you would think," she explained.

"I would not think it would be normal, to be honest," podcast host Owen Thiele noted.

"Nobody does," Madison responded while laughing. I think everybody has this, like, real horror story of like, how gross an old man's body must be."

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Madison, a former Playboy model and one of Hugh Hefner’s longtime girlfriends, left the Playboy Mansion in 2008. In her new interview, Madison admitted she was written into the magazine founder's will at one point before she left the lifestyle behind. Hefner died on Sept. 27, 2017. He was 91.

"I was put in the will at one point," she told Thiele. "And this is kind of sad. But when I broke up with him, I was packing my stuff. And then one day … there was a folder set out on my side of the bed because he knows I'm going to look at it. Like everybody knows I'm the biggest snoop in the house."

"So I look at it, and it's his will all printed out, all the details. This is who's getting what and ... he was leaving me $3 million," Madison claimed. "But it was kind of sad though, because I'd already broken it off with him, and he was trying to get me to stay. So it was kind of like a low-key bribe but also sad because he can't, like, sit me down and talk to me about it."

The "Girls Next Door" star went her separate way and said she later earned the $3 million left behind on her own.

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Madison was 21 when she moved into the Playboy Mansion. She made her exit at age 29 after wrapping "The Girls Next Door," a reality TV series about Hefner’s multiple girlfriends. In 2016, she wrote a memoir, "Down the Rabbit Hole," alleging years of verbal and emotional abuse. 

Looking back at her experience, Madison would advise any hopeful model making her way to Hollywood for a big break to look at the "cautionary tales" of others before diving in.

"I remember being 18 and 19 and thinking I was such a badass and that I could just take on the world and that I could have sex like a man and have no emotional attachment," she reflected in an interview with Fox News Digital. "But it’s really not like that. Doing things like that carries a lot of emotional weight. I think looking into people’s stories who are honest about all the sides of the industry is a really good thing to do. And look at some of the cautionary tales before you just dive in."

On Monday, Madison is kicking off season 3 of Investigation Discovery’s true-crime series, "The Playboy Murders," which explores high-profile tragedies and crimes associated with the iconic magazine brand.

Fox News Digital's Stephanie Nolasco contributed to this report.