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According to documents reviewed by The Times, only eight Texas projects are on the chopping block compared with 53 in California.

Among those on the chopping block were grants related to PrEP, the regimen of drugs that can thwart HIV infection, scientists told the New York Times.

Veterans’ benefits are on the chopping block, with job losses at the Department of Veterans Affairs and reduced dividends from VA-managed life insurance policies.

But people at the protest — organized primarily by Democracy Action Network, a pro-democracy organization founded last year — said the programs on the chopping block are far from wasteful.

Additional agencies on the chopping block that are not related to the environment include offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the Indian Health Service, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education.