Overview
- The budget passed the Senate 46–25 with one abstention, giving Javier Milei his first enacted spending plan after two years of extended appropriations.
- Chapter II was approved 42–28 with two abstentions, repealing legal funding floors for education and science (Article 30) and allowing the government to suspend transfers to universities that withhold required information (Article 12).
- The ruling camp secured votes from La Libertad Avanza, the PRO, most of the UCR and several provincial allies, with three Convicción Federal senators backing key sections as others in Peronism opposed or abstained.
- Leaders forced a chapter-by-chapter vote to limit amendments and avoid sending the bill back to the Chamber of Deputies, and a push for a nominal vote on Article 30 was rejected.
- The plan projects 2026 growth of 5%, inflation at 10.1%, an official exchange rate of 1,423 pesos per dollar in December and a primary surplus of 1.5% of GDP, which officials cast as the basis for a zero‑deficit rule.