Overview

• Senators voted by wide margins to reject the vetoes—59–7 (with 3 abstentions) on universities and 58–7 (with 4 abstentions) on pediatric care—after the lower house had already opposed the vetoes.
• With both chambers insisting, the laws now take effect and the executive is legally required to promulgate and implement the measures.
• The packages expand funding for public universities and pediatric health services, with the pediatric law centered on flagship institutions such as the Garrahan Hospital.
• This is the third congressional override of a Milei veto in the current legislature, a pattern reporters describe as unprecedented since 1983 for a single legislative period.
• The government defends its vetoes as essential to its deficit‑zero policy, while advancing a separate Penal Code reform that stiffens penalties and lowers the age of criminal responsibility to 13.