OMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013
On 1 March 2013 OMB sent Congress the Joint Committee sequestration report and the President issued the order cancelling about $85 billion in FY2013 budgetary resources after the supercommittee failed. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Fiscal-Policy Sustainability.
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On 1 March 2013 OMB sent Congress the Joint Committee sequestration report and the President issued the order cancelling about $85 billion in FY2013 budgetary resources after the supercommittee failed.
Context
Budget Control Act 2011 sat as parent. Neighbouring unemployment print is a later mixed child. He did not sit as every agency furlough clerk. Congress failed to replace the cuts.
BCA 2 August 2011 is the parent. ARRA 2009 is an earlier opposite pulse. Unemployment 2017 is a later print.
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 is president from 20 January 2025. Joe Biden was president 2021–2025.
Why it matters
The path is household purchasing power and fiscal-policy sustainability: a completed across-the-board cut with furlough weather.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Barack Obama
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.55 · verified
BCA required the order. He issued it. Congress failed to replace it. Agencies implemented furloughs.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactOMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013
- weakensDriverFiscal-Policy Sustainability
impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 March 2013 · verified
Across-the-board cuts are a dated blunt fiscal instrument rather than a programmed consolidation.
- FactOMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013
- weakensDriverHousehold Purchasing Power
- weakensIndicators (2)Global Consumer Price Inflation (annual %)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 March 2013 · verified
A completed $85 billion sequester is a dated demand-and-furlough shock.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
5.8 annual % change in CPI · 2.3 above the normal line (2024)
Better than normal5 readings, 2020–2024: rose from 3.3 annual % change in CPI to 5.8 annual % change in CPI.
Moving normal line
- Worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
10.4% · 10.2 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 11.1% to 10.4%.
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.BBC — US budget sequester: Obama says cuts will hit economyBBC · High credibility · verified
- 2.OMB — Report to the Congress on the Joint Committee sequestration for FY2013, 1 March 2013Office of Management and Budget · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Office of Management and Budget carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.
Established: 1 March 2013 sequester order and OMB $85 billion report, independently reported.
Not established: a unique later 750,000-job coefficient from that Friday as a measured same-day print, or that every Head Start uniquely closed that hour.
He issued it. Congress failed to replace it. Agencies implemented furloughs.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies OMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013, not a later speech about OMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013.
Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to BCA required the order. He issued it. Congress failed to replace it. Agencies implemented furloughs. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorBarack Obama
- contributed toFactOMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013
- weakensDrivers (2)Fiscal-Policy Sustainability
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Factrail. (2026). OMB orders the Joint Committee sequestration for fiscal year 2013. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-sequester-2013
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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