US EditionArgentina: Parliament Votes Budget Increases Against Javier Milei's Austerity
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One by one. How each senator voted to expand the budget for universities
In Argentina, this is the second legislative setback for Javier Milei in two days. Parliament voted on Thursday, 21 August, for budget increases for public universities and paediatric hospitals. Texts adopted to the great dam of the President Libertarian of Argentina. Two days earlier, Parliament also managed to lift a presidential veto, resisting its policy of maximum budgetary rigour.
He received 58 votes in favour and 10 against. He arrived with half a sanction of Deputies and it is law.Javier Milei already anticipated that he will veto it.
Members of the sectors attacked by the Government tell how the votes in Deputies and the Senate lived. The Government managed to shield the veto to the increase in pensions, but the emergency law on disability was upheld, as well as several decrees were turned and the initiatives for universities and the Garrahan hospital were approved. Last week it left the government cornered in Congress. On Wednesday in Deputies the presidential veto to the l…
Senators approved more funding for national universities, including an increase in the salaries of their staff
After the approval of the university financing law and the rejection of several government projects, the President expressed his anger and hoped that "in October this will be over."
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