As a result of the cuts President Ford made to government spending, unemployment increased.
At the beginning of his term (1974), Gerald Ford wanted to deal with the high rate of inflation by cutting the government's spending and increasing taxes. However, the Congress opposed completely to this idea and proposed the opposite instead. Ford ended up agreeing to the Congress' plan, which passed a tax cut of more than $22 billion but raised spending on government programs in March 1975.
The measures taken did slow inflation, but the unemployment rate increased to nearly 9 percent, which resulted in an economic recession.