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Gerald Ford: “The more permanent program expenditure reductions are necessary if we are not to embark on a course of future spending…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 1975
The more permanent program expenditure reductions are necessary if we are not to embark on a course of future spending that will be highly inflationary.
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Gerald Ford
Republican · Michigan

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Remarks at a News Briefing on the Fiscal Year 1976 Budget

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