BISMARCK — No state employees who are federally funded will be furloughed or lose pay due to the federal government shutdown, according to the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget.

“We expect that interruptions in federal funds will be short term, and that they won’t significantly affect state cash flow,” Joe Morrissette, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement to the North Dakota Monitor.

Less than 10% of the state’s payroll is funded by federal dollars, Morrissette said. The two state agencies with the most federally funded employees are the Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Environmental Quality.

Morrissette was in charge of the Office of Management and Budget during the 35-day federal government shutdown that started in De

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