# Obama signs the Budget Control Act after a debt-ceiling crisis

Date: 2011

## The fact

On 2 August 2011 President Obama signed S. 365, the Budget Control Act, as Public Law 112-25, raising the debt ceiling and creating a sequester path if a supercommittee failed. The 1 March 2013 sequester is a child.

## Context

House Republicans withheld a clean ceiling. Neighbouring sequester 2013 is the child cut. He did not sit as Speaker. Boehner, Reid, and [Geithner](/people/timothy-geithner) share the bargain. S&P downgraded days later — a neighbour print, not this signature’s unique rating.

Sequester 1 March 2013 is the child. ARRA 2009 is an earlier opposite fiscal pulse.

A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. [Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025.

## Evidence and sources

Congress.gov carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) and [public-debt sustainability](/drivers/public-debt-sustainability): a completed ceiling-and-sequester bargain after a near-default fight.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2 August 2011 signature of Public Law 112-25, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later Treasury default that did not sit, or that every later rating uniquely sat because of that Tuesday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Congress enacted the bargain. OMB later ordered the sequester child.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Obama signs the Budget Control Act after a debt-ceiling crisis, not a later speech about Obama signs the Budget Control Act after a debt-ceiling crisis.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Obama signs the Budget Control Act after a debt-ceiling crisis on 2011-08-02 is not a licence to treat every later Congress.gov communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Obama signs the Budget Control Act after a debt-ceiling crisis into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed. Congress enacted the bargain. OMB later ordered the sequester child. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization
- Public-Debt Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/public-debt-sustainability

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-14379240
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/365

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-bca-2011