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Which of Taft's actions most harmed his standing among progressives?

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Progressives were angered when Taft signed the Payne-Aldrich Act (which hardly cut tariffs and actually raised other tariffs), and when he appointed a conservative lawyer, Richard Balinger, as secretary of the interior.

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