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Rappahannock News
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LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
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Byrd and Harrison
Oppose Budget 4;
Senator Harry F. Byrd has described President Truman's 171billion budget as “the very height of fiscal irresponsibility” and says Congress should reduce it by 17billion.
The budget called for a military outlay of $41,421,000,000 and $7,461,000,000 for foreign military and economic aid.
Senator Byrd, opponent of many of the administration's policies on spending, proposed a Idbillion reduction in non-defense functions of the Government and a $3 billion cut in economic aid to Europe.
He added this would make a balanced budget possible by raising $9.5 billion in new taxes instead of the $16 billion suggested by the President’s new. budget.
Senator Byrd emphasized the prevailing feeling that Congress would provide all the money needed for defense. But he noted that President Truman proposed to increase non-defense spending to the highest level in history. -- Senator Byrd said the President . proposed a tax increase of from $16 to $20 billion and “to continue wasteful domestic spending which has added billions to the public _debt.” ,
Representative Burr P. Harrison this week said the President's budget message gave evidence of “a distressing determination to ope
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