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Argentine Senate Overturns Two Milei Vetoes on University and Pediatric Funding

The lopsided votes signal a legislature newly willing to curb his austerity drive before the October 26 midterms.

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Demonstrators celebrated outside Argentina's Congress after senators overruled President Javier Milei's veto of spending increases for public universities and pediatric care

Overview

  • Senators voted to restore funding measures for public universities and pediatric health care by margins of 59–7 and 58–7.
  • The upper chamber’s action, following earlier backing in the lower house, brings to three the Milei vetoes reversed after last month’s disability funding law was reinstated.
  • President Javier Milei said the new outlays threaten fiscal balance as he pursues deep cuts to shrink government.
  • The defeats arrive as his approval erodes under a corruption scandal and public frustration with cutbacks ahead of the Oct. 26 legislative elections.
  • Financial uncertainty persists as the peso weakens while the United States discusses a possible $20 billion swap line, with President Donald Trump offering support and a meeting expected this month.