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A Dictionary of American History
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Economy Act
Economy Act (20 March 1933) This law was designed to fulfill Franklin D. Roosevelt’s campaign pledge to eliminate wasteful federal expenditures. It was projected to cut $500,000,000 from the budget by salary reductions (including 15 percent from congressmen, senators, the vice-president, and president), eliminating various veterans’ allowances, and reorganizing the bureaucracy, but the actual amount saved was only $243,000,000. The savings were eliminated in 1934 by the Independent Offices Appropriations Act.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Economy Act," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed June 26, 2026, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=WYCAJ89JFPW8EYK.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Economy Act." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 26 Jun. 2026. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=WYCAJ89JFPW8EYK.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Economy Act' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 26 June 2026, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=WYCAJ89JFPW8EYK.
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