Gerald Ford actually said...

We propose to balance the Federal budget by doing two things: number one, cutting the rate in growth of Federal spending...to a 5½ percent rate of increase in growth.

Context

Exchange With Reporters on Arrival at Evansville, Indiana.

04/22/1976

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