Argentine President Javier Milei narrowly avoided a major defeat in Congress as lawmakers struggled to obtain enough votes to partly overturn his veto of a pension spending bill. <\/p>\n
The lower house of Congress voted 160-83 to reject the veto Wednesday night, just short of the two-thirds threshold needed. An override would also have required a vote in the Senate. The bill Milei vetoed would have boosted pension payments and risked the libertarian government\u2019s budget surplus, highly prized by investors. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentine President Javier Milei narrowly avoided a major defeat in Congress as lawmakers struggled to obtain enough votes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[12910,64,63,5471,68261,99,9338,6485,186,17119,3786,68260,18460,171,184,185,84,16570],"class_list":["post-91984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-argentina","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bonds","tag-budget-surplus","tag-business","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-finance","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-javier-milei","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}