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On the recordJuly 17, 1930
Including the estimated postal deficit the total budget estimates of expenditures for the present fiscal year are $4,203,254,457, as compared with actual expenditures for the last fiscal year of $3,994,152,487, or an increase of $209,101,970, being an increase of 5 percent.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on Government Expenditures.

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