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FDR: Sound progress toward a budget that is formally balanced is not to be made by heavily slashing expenditures or…

On the recordJanuary 3, 1939
Sound progress toward a budget that is formally balanced is not to be made by heavily slashing expenditures or drastically increasing taxes.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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