Overview

• After the Chamber of Deputies overturned President Javier Milei’s vetoes on university financing and a pediatric health emergency, spokesperson Manuel Adorni called the decision “un horror” and “demagogia”.
• Adorni pegged the annual cost of the university law at 1.9 billones de pesos and said funding it would equate to suspending the entire Legislative budget for four months, raising VAT to 24% for 45 days, or freezing social plans for three months.
• He also quantified the pediatric emergency measure at 130,000 millones de pesos and intensified political attacks by linking university protests and unions to opposition forces.
• Chief of Cabinet Guillermo Francos reaffirmed deficit‑zero as the government’s core tool, as the Senate took up a separate veto on ATN transfers and signs of currency pressure persisted with officials vowing Central Bank sales at the band’s ceiling.
• Intra‑coalition tensions surfaced with deputy Gabriel Chumpitaz backing the funding laws, and the ATE public‑sector union blasted Adorni after he floated mass layoffs as a cost comparison.