In a significant policy victory, Argentina President Javier Milei has managed to prevent an attempt to increase pension spending as the opposition’s efforts to override his veto fell short of the necessary votes. What Happened: The lower house of the Argentina Congress voted 153-87 in favor of overriding Milei’s veto, failing to obtain the two-thirds majority, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Milei had argued that the proposed increase, intended to offset Argentina’s high inflation for pensioners, would undermine his key commitments to eliminate the country’s chronic fiscal deficit a…
