And the failure of Congress to agree on a plan for deficit reduction by a November deadline triggered a law requiring another $500 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next decade, starting in 2013.
The 1 January deadline triggered tax increases of about $536bn and spending cuts of $109bn from domestic and military programmes.
It also puts at risk May's March deadline triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the formal step needed to start the process of exiting the bloc.
May telephoned European leaders to tell them again that she would meet her self-imposed deadline and trigger article 50 by the end of March 2017, despite losing the high court case.
Timeframes for reporting incidents to the department are extremely important because failures to meet these deadlines can trigger financial penalties.
The prime minister has reassured European leaders that she plans to stick to her self-imposed deadline of triggering article 50 by the end of March.
During departmental questions in parliament, Davis said he was keen not to rule out any option before the end of March, the government's self-imposed deadline for triggering article 50.
The government has acquiesced to opposition demands that parliament see a Brexit plan while adding a caveat that the Commons must endorse May's March 2017 deadline for triggering article 50.
Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, has insisted he will hold Theresa May to account over her plans for taking Britain out of the European Union, as MPs overwhelmingly backed a government amendment endorsing the prime minister's self-imposed March deadline for triggering article 50.
But the document to which Holbrooke referred is in fact full of vague, sometimes entirely unmeasurable "milestones" that carry no deadlines and trigger no consequences.
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