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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts

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    In his first year, Jackson cut 20 percent of the 11,000 federal jobs in a government overseeing 24 states, Sen. John Holmes of Maine said in Congress in 1830. Jackson removed “more officials in one year than all preceding presidents had in the previous forty,” Cole wrote.

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