 On December 15 , 2011 , a deal was reached on the remaining nine appropriations bills , which were combined into the Consolidated Appropriations Act , 2012 . One point of contention was that an earlier draft of the bill supported by Republicans contained new restrictions on travel to Cuba , which had been relaxed by the Obama administration in 2009 . These restrictions were removed in the enacted bill at the insistence of the Obama administration . A separate Disaster Relief Appropriations Act , 2012 was also included in the package , as well as a concurrent resolution which offset the increased disaster funding by imposing a 1 @.@ 83 % across @-@ the @-@ board spending cut to all discretionary programs except Defense and Veterans Affairs . Two more continuing resolutions were also passed , one extending the deadline by one day so that the Senate could vote on the package , and one until December 23 , 2011 . The two appropriations bills were enacted on December 23 , 2011 , but the concurrent resolution failed in the Senate . 
