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Gerald Ford: “There is no excuse, for example, for the Federal Government to have 15 different child nutrition programs spending over…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 1977
There is no excuse, for example, for the Federal Government to have 15 different child nutrition programs spending over $3 billion per year and still have 700,000 children from families below the poverty line who receive no aid.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Annual Budget Message to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1978

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