Previously, in the Chamber of Deputies, the opposition led by Kirchnerism managed to overturn the vetoes
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The Senate of the Nation is debating this afternoon the rejection of President Javier Milei's vetoes of the deficit-ridden university funding laws and the declaration of "Pediatrics Emergency."
However, far from being initiatives aimed at solving problems, they were introduced by the opposition, led by Kirchnerism, with the sole objective of drastically increasing public spending, bankrupting the State, and destroying the fiscal surplus, seeking to trigger a new economic crisis.
Previously, in the Chamber of Deputies, the unified opposition managed to reject the presidential vetoes in two votes that represented a major political setback for the Government and the majority of Argentinians.
La votación en Diputados.
In the case of the pediatrics emergency, the rejection received 181 votes in favor, 60 against, and one abstention. Shortly after, the plenary did the same with the university funding law: 174 votes in favor, 67 against, and 2 abstentions. With these figures, the Lower House gave preliminary approval to the challenges, which must now be ratified in the Senate for the vetoes to be definitively annulled.
The opposition seeks to establish the false narrative that these initiatives are "indispensable" to guarantee resources for pediatric hospitals and national universities. However, both laws are unnecessary and their approval has the sole purpose of destroying the fiscal surplus achieved since the first months of the libertarian administration.
In the case of Hospital Garrahan, the focus of the "Pediatrics Emergency" law, Milei's Government recalled that the allocated budgetincreased by 247% since the beginning of Milei's term, a figure that represents 124 percentage points above the accumulated inflation in the same period. In addition, the doctors at the health center received a 63% salary increase during 2024, which demonstrates that pediatric care is already reinforced.
José Mayans, senador kirchnerista.
Regarding the university system, a recent OECD report revealed that Argentina allocates to higher education an expenditure comparable to, or even higher than, G20 countries such as Japan, Israel, and Ireland, so the approval of an additional increase in allocations is merely a political maneuver to destabilize the national Government.
The result in the Senate will determine whether the coup-mongering projects manage to prevail over the necessary presidential vetoes or if Milei's decision to save the country's economy is finally ratified.
