Overview
- The administration used delegated powers to shut the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad, Comisión Nacional del Tránsito y Seguridad Vial and other bodies on July 8 to achieve annual savings of about USD 100 million
- Governors led by Santiago del Estero’s Gerardo Zamora met at the Consejo Federal de Inversiones to address a 4.2% drop in coparticipation transfers and agreed to jointly propose a bill reallocating fuel taxes and ATN
- Economy ministers from all 24 jurisdictions held talks with National Secretary of Hacienda Carlos Guberman to negotiate resource distribution amid tightened provincial budgets
- Fewer than one in four governors who backed the 2024 Pacto de Mayo plan to attend Milei’s 9 de Julio vigil in Tucumán, underscoring waning support for the president
- In the Chamber of Deputies, opposition deputies pressed forward with emergency measures for pediatric care at the Garrahan Hospital and restored funding for public universities as the government’s majority erodes