Overview

• Senators voted 63–7 to finalize Congress’s reversal after the lower house acted in August, marking the first full presidential veto override since 2003.
• The law expands healthcare benefits and provides a pension for people with disabilities while reinstating a state hiring quota.
• Argentina’s congressional budget office estimates a fiscal impact of about 0.28% of GDP this year and 0.46% in the following year.
• The decision arrives days before a Buenos Aires provincial election and ahead of October midterms, with Milei’s La Libertad Avanza holding less than 15% of congressional seats.
• Milei says the measure endangers fiscal balance and has signaled a court challenge, as bribery allegations tied to the disability agency led to the chief’s firing and a denial from the president.