On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Elon Musk waved a chainsaw bequeathed him by Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the event, proclaiming, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.” Milei has been cutting the Argentinian budget successfully; his austerity measures gave the country its first budget surplus in more than …
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On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., Elon Musk waved a chainsaw bequeathed him by Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the event, proclaiming, “This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.”
Milei has been cutting the Argentinian budget successfully; his austerity measures gave the country its first budget surplus in more than ten years in 2024. Argentina had a budget surplus of 1.76 trillion pesos, and the primary fiscal balance rose to a 10.41 trillion peso surplus.
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