Aug. 23, 2025—On Thursday Aug. 20, Argentina’s Senate resoundingly defeated madman President Javier Milei by delivering a series of veto-proof votes that overturned five deregulation decrees and restored funding to crucial state-run programs whose budgets had been savaged by the cruel and sadistic Milei. The Senate’s defense of the renowned public Garrahan Pediatric Hospital even got the support of some of Milei’s most recalcitrant party members, who couldn’t stomach killing sick children on behalf of Milei’s IMF program. The Senate vote, which lasted into the wee hours of Aug. 21, came just two and a half weeks before the Sept. 7 legislative elections in the province of Buenos Aires, in which Milei is desperate to have his LLA party make a good showing. Legislative elections follow in other provinces on Oct. 26.
He was so hysterical about the Senate vote that he used his keynote address before the Council of the Americas meeting the next day in Buenos Aires to rave that the political opposition is trying to “bring down my government” and “disrupt the macroeconomic order,” the Buenos Aires Herald reported Aug. 22. Several times he attacked “Kirchneristas"—followers of former President Cristina Kirchner—as responsible, accusing them of planning vote fraud in the upcoming elections. While the Peronist UxP bloc has an important majority in the Senate, it couldn’t have gotten a veto-proof vote without the support of other parties/factions, including the Radical Party and the PRO, linked to former President Mauricio Macri, as well as others who normally vote with the government.
