News of state spending

State spending falls to lowest level in a decade

Today 09:21 Expenditure has fallen 5.1 points between 2023 and 2025 and now accounts for 14.5% of GDP, says new Fundación Libertad report; Public works and subsidies responsible for most of cuts.

PUBLIC SPENDING STATS

Milei’s chainsaw slashes 50 trillion pesos in spending

23-12-2025 16:35 Data from the IARAF institute shows government has cut almost US$8 billion in spending since taking office – and President Milei is going for more, saying he will readjust spending even if 2026 Budget is approved.

LAY-OFFS: WHERE AUSTERITY HITS

Correo Argentino, ARCA, Trenes Argentinos top redundancy rankings

15-07-2025 11:06 President Javier Milei put deregulation tsar Federico Sturzenegger in charge of cuts across state agencies. The official left almost no area untouched – among state-owned companies, Correo Argentino saw the highest number of lay-offs, with 4,945 jobs cut.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

Towards a smarter state

29-03-2025 06:11 The libertarian government seems intent on cutting back a bloated state to its right size without having any clear idea what that size might be.

by Michael Soltys

HEALTH & ECONOMY

Milei government eliminates Argentina's national cancer institute

06-03-2025 21:15 In a statement, Argentina's Health Ministry announced the closure of the Instituto Nacional del Cáncer because of a "duplicity of tasks" and to have "greater control of actions."

Analysis

Midterm elections set limit on Milei’s search for spending cuts

10-01-2025 13:26 Spending cuts in 2024 reached some five percent of Argentina's GDP. Is there room to repeat this feat?

education funding row

Congress opens session on Milei's veto of university funding bill

09-10-2024 12:32 Argentina's lower house Chamber of Deputies will on Wednesday decide if President Javier Milei's veto of a law allowing greater funding to state universities will be upheld.

EDITORIAL

It’s the education, stupid

05-10-2024 06:24 When presenting the 2025 Budget in mid-September, Milei defined his fundamental fiscal principle as first defining the available revenue and then adjusting the spending to it – modernising the university system to that end could be an interesting application of that principle. But instead his primitive proposal is literally to cut university spending in half with his chainsaw.

POLITICS & ECONOMY

Privatisations, relaunches and retirements – Milei’s plan for state media

26-08-2024 19:14 President Javier Milei has managed to shutter the Télam news agency and is attempting to downsize and sell off a host of Argentina’s state media outlets – but are his plans working? And what is the “relaunch” his administration is planning?

by Julian D'Imperio

EDUCATION

Teaching staff at public universities stage 48-hour strike

20-08-2024 12:06 Strike at state universities gets underway with no classes scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday; Unions claim the government's wage renegotiation proposal is insufficient as Milei administration looks to cut costs.

LABOUR TENSIONS

Strikes pile up amid sting of Milei’s shock therapy

21-02-2024 16:03 Rail service, healthcare and schools all face disruption; Unions pushing back against government austerity measures.

News of state spending

State spending falls to lowest level in a decade

Milei’s chainsaw slashes 50 trillion pesos in spending

Correo Argentino, ARCA, Trenes Argentinos top redundancy rankings

Towards a smarter state

Milei government eliminates Argentina's national cancer institute

Midterm elections set limit on Milei’s search for spending cuts

Congress opens session on Milei's veto of university funding bill

It’s the education, stupid

Privatisations, relaunches and retirements – Milei’s plan for state media

Teaching staff at public universities stage 48-hour strike

Strikes pile up amid sting of Milei’s shock therapy

Latam-GPT: a Latin American AI to combat US-centric bias

State spending in Argentina falls to lowest level in a decade

Inflation in Buenos Aires City accelerated to 3.1% in January, highest increase in 10 months

Milei to attend inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington

Congress revs up for labour reform, youth crime regime debates

Inflación de enero de 2026: Indec publica el dato oficial, pero con la vieja fórmula

Estados Unidos interceptó un petrolero en el Océano Índico por vínculos con Venezuela

Cachanosky explicó por qué el FAL "no es una buena idea en la reforma laboral"

Condenaron a prisión perpetua al Clan Sena por el femicidio de Cecilia Strzyzowski

INDEC publica el IPC de enero de 2026: la inflación arranca el año sin poder perforar el 2%