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Joe Biden

Budget Control Act of 2011

Tuesday Aug 2, 2011
Washington D.C., U.S.

The U.S. debt ceiling crisis developed over the next few months, but Biden's relationship with McConnell again proved key in breaking a deadlock and bringing about a deal to resolve it, in the form of the Budget Control Act of 2011, signed on August 2, 2011, the same day an unprecedented U.S. default had loomed.


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