{"id":178603,"date":"2019-08-28T15:05:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=178603"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:05:18","slug":"nd-ends-2-year-budget-cycle-more-dollars-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=178603","title":{"rendered":"ND ends 2 year budget cycle, more dollars than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92545\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/calculator.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota ended its two-year budget cycle in June with about $250 million more than expected due to strong crude oil prices and better-than-anticipated earnings from the state&#8217;s oil tax savings account.<\/p>\n<p>Budget director Joe Morrissette told a panel of legislators Wednesday that the state&#8217;s current budget cycle that began July 1 already is running more than $42 million ahead of projections.<\/p>\n<p>Morrissette says the state&#8217;s previous budget assumed earnings of $300 million from the state&#8217;s voter-approved Legacy Fund. He says the fund currently holds about $6.8 billion and had earnings of $455 million the last budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The current budget represents about $4.9 billion in state general fund spending. General fund spending is up about 12.5% from what was approved by lawmakers two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota ended its two-year budget cycle in June with about $250 million more than expected due to strong crude oil prices and better-than-anticipated earnings from the state&#8217;s oil tax savings account. Budget director Joe Morrissette told a panel of legislators Wednesday that the state&#8217;s current [&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-178603","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\/178603","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=178603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178604,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178603\/revisions\/178604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}