{"id":13714,"date":"2013-02-28T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:56:28","slug":"n-d-positioned-to-absorb-fed-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=13714","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Positioned To Absorb Fed. Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13725\" title=\"NDstatecapital\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NDstatecapital.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s top budget official says the oil-rich state is &#8220;very well-positioned&#8221; to weather looming federal spending cuts &#8211; if it has to do so.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budget director Pam Sharp says North Dakota might lose about $20 million in federal funding in fiscal 2013 if President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers don&#8217;t reach an agreement by Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oil has helped North Dakota bank about $1.6 billion in reserves. Sharp says the state is collecting more than $200 million monthly in gross oil revenue alone. That&#8217;s about 10 times the amount the state could lose this year if the cuts kick in.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sharp says the lost federal funds &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be that difficult to deal with.&#8221; But she says the Legislature would have to make the decision to make up the shortfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s top budget official says the oil-rich state is &#8220;very well-positioned&#8221; to weather looming federal spending cuts &#8211; if it has to do so. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Budget director Pam Sharp says North Dakota might lose about $20 million in federal funding in fiscal 2013 if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13726,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions\/13726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}