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This is not going to play well during the shutdown, not when government employees are going without pay and millions are on the verge of losing their healthcare coverage. Trump appears to be putting the welfare of Argentinians ahead of Americans, all in an attempt to keep Milei in office.
I'm sure that this issue will be revisited during the upcoming mid-term elections, and perhaps even sooner during the various off-year elections being held less than a month from now.
OCU
P.S. My wife and I have already voted (we deposited our ballots in a drop-box this past Sunday and we've already been notified that our ballots have been collected, verified and that they will be counted) in California's 'Prop 50' special election.