 The House resolution did not pass the Senate , nor did the Senate pass a resolution of their own , so there was no 2012 budget of record . The actual appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2012 included four continuing resolutions and three full @-@ year appropriations bills enacted in November and December 2011 , in accordance with the United States budget process . These appropriations were greatly affected by the Budget Control Act of 2011 , passed in August 2011 as a resolution to the debt @-@ ceiling crisis ; it mandated budget cuts over a ten @-@ year period beginning with Fiscal Year 2012 . 
