{"id":161837,"date":"2019-01-09T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161837"},"modified":"2019-01-09T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:26:13","slug":"nd-legislature-pegs-oil-tax-collections-lower-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161837","title":{"rendered":"ND legislature pegs oil tax collections lower, projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56851\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oil-prices-drop1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature expects oil tax collections to be almost $600 million lower than what Gov. Doug Burgum had assumed in crafting his two-year spending blueprint.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the North Dakota House and Senate&#8217;s appropriations committees on Wednesday agreed on a starting point for state government&#8217;s 2019-2020 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum proposed a $14.3 billion spending plan presented last month that predicted more than $4.6 billion in oil and gas tax revenue. But oil prices have slid in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers estimate the revenue at $4 billion for the budget period.<\/p>\n<p>Republican and Democratic legislative leaders say their blueprint better reflects the state&#8217;s economy at present.<\/p>\n<p>The governor doesn&#8217;t control the state&#8217;s checkbook. It&#8217;s the Legislature that decides how much to spend on state government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Legislature expects oil tax collections to be almost $600 million lower than what Gov. Doug Burgum had assumed in crafting his two-year spending blueprint. Members of the North Dakota House and Senate&#8217;s appropriations committees on Wednesday agreed on a starting point for state [&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-161837","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\/161837","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=161837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161838,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161837\/revisions\/161838"}],"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=161837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}