BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s senate dealt a blow to President Javier Milei's libertarian agenda Thursday, overriding his veto on raising disability benefits, in the first such congressional reversal of his presidency.

Lawmakers in the upper house voted 63-7 to strike down Milei’s veto of a bill that boosts financial aid for people with disabilities — far above the two-thirds majority needed.

The legislative defeat adds to Milei's mounting troubles, which include a corruption scandal in the nation’s disability agency that has entangled his influential sister and a weakening peso that has prompted the central bank to raise interest rates to commerce-suffocating levels.

Senators last month passed two bills boosting state spending on health care and public universities, jeopardizin

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