Argentine President Javier Milei to Fire 70,000 Government Employees: ‘Chainsaw and Blender’

Published on March 27, 2024

Argentine President Javier Milei has announced plans to dismiss 70,000 government employees in the coming months, highlighting another step to implement the chainsaw-waiving libertarian’s vision of a small-state society. “We are convinced of carrying out a fiscal adjustment, which has a lot of chainsaw and blender,” Mr. Milei said in an hour-long speech at a March 26 event held in Buenos Aries by the International Economic Forum of the Americas, referring to his plan to rapidly bring the South American country’s hovering 250 percent inflation down to single-digit levels. “We completely eliminated public works, of which I am proud, and something that all good people should oppose. We eliminated discretionary transfers to the provinces. We fired 50,000 public employees. Contracts were canceled and 70,000 more are going to be cut.”...

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