chopping block

Every time the city faces budget troubles, smaller departments are placed on the chopping block, with the mayor or council members looking to merge them with bigger agencies.

The mobilization is urgent as the National Endowment for the Arts may be next on the chopping block — its budget has been redirected away toward project that celebrate “America’s greatness.”

More than 7,000 of the agency's staffers are on the chopping block, further cutting a headcount that is already dozens of times lower than that of private insurers, O’Malley shared.

"So if they don't want to do a favor for his political allies, they're on the chopping block as well," Slaughter said.

California’s national forests are on the chopping block — literally — in the wake of the Trump administration’s April 5 order to immediately expand timber production in the United States.