Our organization strongly opposed the Budget Control Act, which raised the debt limit in 2011. We saw that it would inevitably lead to “massive tax hikes, massive defense cuts, or both.” The BCA was another example of Washington kicking the can down the road and refusing to deal with the huge set of problems facing our country.

Before the BCA, we had opposed a series of short-term continuing resolutions that were designed to buy time and avoid necessary policy choices, thus facilitating the eventual deal that was the BCA. Our opposition to those measures was angrily panned in some quarters of the Republican Party as trying to force a government shutdown.