Gov. Armstrong directs larger agencies to look at making budget cuts

North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong calls for cuts to agency budgets for 2027-29 biennium

BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong wants state agencies to tighten their belts next budget cycle to begin correcting a revenue-spending imbalance that has developed over the past couple of decades. His request to cut budgets comes at a time when the Iran war has disrupted the global oil market, to which North Dakota's economy is heavily tied. Over the next several months, agencies will prepare their budget proposals for the governor's…

Gov. Armstrong directs larger agencies to look at making budget cuts

BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — Gov. Kelly Armstrong tells state agencies that there is a balance problem in the state budget. He says twenty years of growth in the state has come with twenty years of growth in the state budget and it is unsustainable. He has presented his executive budget guidelines for next biennium. Agencies with general fund budgets of less than $10 million are asked to prepare a hold-even budget. Those with budgets between $10 mill…

Gov. Armstrong Presents Budget Guidelines

BISMARCK, N.D. – North DAkota Gov. Kelly Armstrong presented his executive budget guidelines for next biennium, calling on some agencies to prepare hold-even budgets and others to reduce their budgets as part of a long-term strategy to bring general fund spending in line with general fund revenues by 2032. “Twenty years of growth in North Dakota has come with 20 years of growth in the state budget. Much of that was necessary, but the growth rate…