Argentina's struggling President Javier Milei suffered a new setback on Thursday as Congress overturned his vetoes of laws increasing funding for public universities and for pediatric care.

Senators invalidated both vetoes, which had already been rejected by the lower Chamber of Deputies, bringing to three the number of laws upheld by Congress despite vehement opposition from the budget-slashing Milei.

The vote comes as the US-backed Milei struggles to end a run on the national currency, the peso, in the run-up to crucial October 26 mid-term elections.

Outside Congress, about 100 people celebrated the results.

Psychology student Tomas Bossi said he was proud of the outcome.

"We've been fighting and resisting the government's atrocious underfunding of national universities for over a y

See Full Page