President Javier Milei said on Tuesday that USA is “copying the Argentine model” to deregulate the economy, before traveling to Florida for a forum with President-elect Donald Trump.
The president assured that billionaire Elon Musk, whom Trump could entrust with the reorganization of the US federal administration, is holding talks with one of his ministers on this issue.
“I understand that it is through lower taxes and not spurious devaluations that impoverish the population that competitiveness is achieved. In the United States they have already realized this and are copying our model,” Milei said at an event for the technology company. Finish in Buenos Aires.
“Musk is having talks with Federico Sturzenegger to see how to deregulate the American economy,” he continued, referring to his minister in charge of reducing the structure and cost of the State.
The Argentine president made these comments two days before traveling to Florida to attend a conservative summit at Mar-A-Lago, Trump’s Florida residence, where he hopes to meet with the president-elect and Musk, owner of the social network , a presidential source confirmed to AFP on Tuesday.
Since taking office almost a year ago, Milei undertook a strong adjustment that included reducing ministries by half, paralyzing public works, cutting subsidies and the elimination, until September, of more than 32,000 state jobs, according to Sturzenegger himself.
Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni reported that Trump and Milei had a telephone conversation in which the American leader reportedly told the Argentine: “You are my favorite president.”
After learning of Trump’s victory last week, Milei congratulated him through messages on Instagram and X. “You know you can count on Argentina to make the United States great again,” he wrote in one of them.
Milei, who made the chainsaw a metaphor for state cuts, is full of praise for both Trump and Musk, the richest person in the world and who is expected to exert significant influence on the next US government.
By attending the meeting of donors of the conservative CPAC forum in Mar-A-Lago, Milei snubs his regional peers and King Felipe VI of Spain, who meet on Friday in Ecuador at an Ibero-American Summit.
Upon his return, he will receive French President Emmanuel Macron, who will visit Argentina before participating in the G20 summit on November 18 and 19 in Rio de Janeiro.
WITH INFORMATION FROM AFP
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