The Argentine government is evaluating the reallocation of funds to comply with emergency laws for Disability and university financing, following a legislative defeat on Chapter XI of the Budget in the Chamber of Deputies and a judicial ruling that mandates compliance with the law aimed at updating the budgets of higher education institutions. According to official sources cited by the Argentine News Agency, the government "believes it has the numbers to pass" the 2026 Budget in next Friday's Senate session and does not want "changes" to the project to avoid it returning to the Chamber of Deputies. Additionally, the Casa Rosada is considering a decree to reallocate funds for the Disability emergency and university financing. Meanwhile, La Libertad Avanza has gained new backing from Peronism to pass the Budget in the Senate next Friday, as four senators from Convicción Federal will support the general vote. This way, the government is set to, for the first time since President Javier Milei took office in December 2023, have an approved Budget, as it has so far governed the country under the extension of the law passed in 2022.
The Ruling Federal Justice ordered the Executive Branch on Tuesday to immediately apply the university financing law and provisionally suspended the decree that had halted the updating of teacher salaries and student scholarships. The decision was made by the Federal Administrative Litigation Court 11, presided over by Judge Martín Cormick, within the framework of an amparo lawsuit filed by the National Interuniversity Council and other entities of the university system. The magistrate declared Decree 759/2025 inapplicable insofar as it conditioned the execution of Law 27.795 on the prior definition of funding sources by Congress. According to the ruling, accessed by the Argentine News Agency, the suspension ordered by the Executive, at this preliminary stage of the process, appears to be an arbitrary act contrary to the Constitution. The ruling granted the precautionary measure and ordered the State to immediately comply with Articles 5 and 6 of the law, which establish the updating of remittances for teacher salaries and the automatic recomposition of student scholarships.
