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Show ' Washington Snapshots Ranted PteAtott. ? The National Association of Manufacturers' budget, showing that Federal expenditures for the fiscal year 1949 could be held to $31 billion merely by eliminating waste and by prudent reduction of departmental requests, has made a deep impression in Washington. Support Expected ... Since the NAM budget was made up on the basis of House and Senate Sen-ate committee reports in connection connec-tion with appropriations for fiscal 1948, it is expected to find considerable consid-erable support in Congress. When the NAM budget was first made public, some veterans took the mistaken view that it proposed less money for .the Veterans Administration. Ad-ministration. The fact was, though, .i . ii . , . that the only NAM recommenda-toin recommenda-toin regarding veterans was based on the view that the number of veterans receiving readjustments will decline in 1949. The recommended recom-mended budget does not contemplate contem-plate elimination of any veterans benefits now available. Rolls Still Swollen . . . The NAM budget generally was based on the known fact that the Federal administrative organization organiza-tion is still in the swollen state to which it was expanded during the war, and in the prewar emergencies. emergen-cies. The services performed by many agencies are no longer necessary, it was remarked. If these agencies are not promptly liquidated, every effort will be made to find new activities ac-tivities to justify their continuance. The NAM budget, by the way, came within $1 billion of the budget bud-get estimate of economy-minded Sen. Harry Byrd, of Virginia. Byrd said the budget should be held to $32 billion. |