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80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt's death, Trump cuts threaten his legacy. Updated April 17, 2025 5:02 AM ET Originally published April 15, 2025 4:30 PM ET.

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression, as the Trump administration slashes the federal government.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died 80 years ago in Warm Springs, Georgia. A polio sufferer, he first went there for healing, to soak in the town's namesake waters.

Roosevelt established a foundation here in 1927 to treat people with polio. After he was elected president in 1932, he regularly returned to his retreat in Warm Springs named the Little White House.

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression, as the Trump administration slashes the federal government.

Descendants and others reflect on the legacy of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression, as the Trump administration slashes the federal government.