{"id":128480,"date":"2017-09-07T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128480"},"modified":"2017-09-07T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T13:54:00","slug":"burgum-statement-trump-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128480","title":{"rendered":"Burgum statement, Trump visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mandan\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 At the Andeavor oil refinery in Mandan, Wednesday, Governor\u00a0 Doug Burgum was pleased to hear President Trump say he wants all of America to be inspired by the North Dakota example. The president called the state \u201ca reminder of what can happen when we promote American jobs instead of obstructing them,\u201d and he highlighted North Dakota\u2019s lowest-in-the-nation unemployment rate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNorth Dakota leaders have worked hard over the past 25 years to reduce individual and corporate income tax rates, pass sensible regulations and foster a business-friendly environment that stimulates investment and job creation, and we appreciate President Trump recognizing those continuing efforts,\u201d Burgum said. \u201cWe share the president\u2019s goals for tax reform: simplify the tax code, lower rates to ease the burden on middle-class families and set corporate tax rates at levels that allow U.S. businesses to better compete in the global economy, bringing back jobs and wealth from overseas. And we urge Congress to work with the administration to achieve meaningful tax reform that encourages economic growth and saves taxpayers time and money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Governor Burgum, First Lady Kathryn Helgaas Burgum and Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford greeted President Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn after they deplaned Air Force One at the Bismarck airport, marking the commander-in-chief\u2019s first visit to North Dakota since his inauguration.<\/p>\n

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President Trump and daughter Ivanka Trump invited the governor and first lady to ride with them in the presidential state car from the airport to the refinery. During the roughly 20-minute ride, the president and governor discussed North Dakota\u2019s drought \u2013 including Burgum\u2019s pending request for a presidential major disaster declaration \u2013 as well as tax policy, agriculture and energy, among other topics.<\/p>\n

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The president\u2019s comments on the strength of the state\u2019s energy sector \u2013 calling it the \u201cNorth Dakota energy miracle\u201d \u2013 struck a chord with Lt. Gov. Sanford, who as Watford City\u2019s mayor witnessed how private-sector innovation unlocked the state\u2019s vast oil reserves and turned North Dakota into the nation\u2019s No. 2 oil-producing state, with a population soaring after decades of decline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen crude oil prices plummeted, North Dakota producers responded by finding ways to boost efficiency and lower their costs, and they\u2019re still producing more than 1 million barrels of oil per day,\u201d Sanford said. \u201cWe need to apply that same ingenuity to tax reform so we can incentivize business growth, expand the tax base and create more jobs with higher wages.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mandan\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 At the Andeavor oil refinery in Mandan, Wednesday, Governor\u00a0 Doug Burgum was pleased to hear President Trump say he wants all of America to be inspired by the North Dakota example. The president called the state \u201ca reminder of what can happen when we promote American jobs instead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128490,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128480\/revisions\/128490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}