{"id":316828,"date":"2025-10-15T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316828"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:49:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:52","slug":"trump-threatens-to-cut-us-aid-to-argentina-if-milei-loses-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316828","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Guardian \u2013 Oct 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_276632\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276632\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt wp-image-276632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Argentinean-President-elect-Milei.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Argentinean-President-elect-Milei.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Argentinean-President-elect-Milei-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 700px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-276632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Milei<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump has warned he could cut financial aid to Argentina if his ally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/javier-milei\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Javier Milei<\/a> loses crucial legislative elections later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he loses, we are not going to be generous with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/argentina\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Argentina<\/a>,\u201d the US president said as Milei visited the White House to seek the Republican\u2019s political and economic support. \u201cI\u2019m with this man because his philosophy is correct. And he may win and he may not win \u2013 I think he\u2019s going to win. And if he wins we are staying with him, and if he doesn\u2019t win we are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s administration has already promised $20bn to prop up Argentina\u2019s struggling economy but his backing has failed to calm the markets \u2013 or help Milei\u2019s polling before midterms on 26 October.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the elections, in which Milei\u2019s minority party is hoping to boost its seat tally, will dictate whether he can pass tough cost-cutting reforms or will face a legislative brick wall for the next two years of his term.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing Milei as a \u201cgreat leader\u201d, Trump said he would \u201cfully endorse\u201d his ideological ally in the elections. \u201cHe\u2019s Maga all the way, it\u2019s \u2018Make Argentina Great Again,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has, however, faced questions about how a big bailout for Argentina tallies with that same \u201cAmerica First\u201d policy. Asked by reporters what the benefit to the United States was, Trump replied: \u201cWe are helping a great philosophy take over a great country. We want to see it succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Argentina struggling to stave off yet another financial crisis and Milei\u2019s disapproval ratings rising, the country\u2019s president has come to his rightwing ally Trump for help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/14\/trump-threatens-to-cut-us-aid-to-argentina-if-milei-loses-election\">Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says \u2018we will not be generous\u2019 if Milei fails to win key midterms after promising $20bn to prop up struggling economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316833,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316828\/revisions\/316833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}