“We have already eliminated 50,000 public offices and now we are going to eliminate 20,000 more, until we reach 70,” the president announced during a closing speech at the International Economic Forum of the Americas.
He also emphasized that he had frozen public works, cut off some funds to provincial governments and canceled more than 200,000 social welfare plans, which he described as corrupt. As part of a plan announced by Milei to achieve fiscal balance at any cost this year.
Milei's employment cuts are expected to face rejection by Argentina's powerful unions and could lead to a fall in the president's approval.