On Tuesday, the Education and Culture Commission and the Budget and Finance Commission of that Chamber of Congress gave a positive opinion to the regulation on the budget for public higher education centers and declared it ready for analysis.
However, President Milei announced that if approved, it would be vetoed, as well as the law on pension mobility.
The lawmakers, mostly from the Union por la Patria (Union for the Homeland, UP) alliance, also required to debate presidential decree 656/2024, which granted 100 billion pesos (more than 100 million dollars) in reserved spending to the SIDE and was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies in August.
In July, the Government announced the dissolution of the Federal Intelligence Service (AFI) and informed it was replaced by the SIDE, which depends directly on the head of State and has operational control over four agencies created “to transform and modernize the system.”
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