Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

If the forecast of tax receipts made by these experts show that the departmental estimates of expenditures will exceed the estimated tax receipts, the President instructs the Director of the Budget to make every possible effort to pare the departmental estimates.

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Annual Budget Message

01/02/1938

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