Overview

• Senate committees on Health, Education and Budget will meet on August 19 to issue dictámenes on the university financing and pediatric emergency bills.
• Under Senate rules, a one-week interval after committee approval could bring a floor debate as early as the week of August 27.
• The Chamber of Deputies confirmed a megasession for August 20 to vote on overturning multiple presidential vetoes on recent social and funding measures.
• Opposition senators plan to autoconvoke later this week to challenge decrees that ordered the closure of agencies such as INTI, INTA, Vialidad Nacional and the National Genetic Data Bank.
• The Milei administration has signaled it will veto any bill that increases spending, including proposals for a $10,000 million inflation-indexed university fund and a pediatric emergency package with an estimated ARS 133,433 million annual cost.