Argentina: Milei Vetoes Hikes in Pensions and Disability Benefits

Argentina: Milei Vetoes Hikes in Pensions and Disability Benefits
Above: Argentine President Javier Milei at the Rural Exposition in Buenos Aires on July 26, 2025. Image copyright: Luciano González/Anadolu/Getty Images

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Pro-government narrative

These vetoes represent necessary fiscal discipline to prevent Argentina from sliding back into economic chaos. Approving unfunded spending increases would destroy the country's hard-earned progress and send millions more into poverty through renewed inflation and economic instability.

Government-critical narrative

The vetoes constitute cruel abandonment of Argentina's most vulnerable citizens, who are already struggling to survive on poverty-level pensions. With most retirees below the poverty line, Milei is effectively forcing them to make impossible choices between medicine and food.

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