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enid602

(9,574 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:46 PM Oct 15

US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina through a mix of financing from sovereign funds and the private sector.

That would come on top of the $20 billion credit swap line that the U.S. Treasury pledged to Argentine President Javier Milei and his government this month to bolster the South American nation’s collapsing currency.

“We are working on a $20 billion facility that would complement our swap line, with private banks and sovereign funds that, I believe, would be more focused on the debt market,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters Wednesday. He called it “a private-sector solution” and said “many banks are interested in it and many sovereign funds have expressed interest.”

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-argentina-financing-economy-milei-billion-peso-fd38553ae03f4c33ce1288999469f7fbp p.m.



Please remember that Argentina started 2025 by borrowing $20 from the IMF, which is essentially the US. PLUS the $20b swap of three days ago. PLUS this new $20b loan from private and institutional sources. It must be expensive to prop up dictators around the globe. How could Milei need $60b in bailouts after less than two years in office?
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US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion (Original Post) enid602 Oct 15 OP
Good indicator of what happens to the economies of countries run by fascist dicktators AZJonnie Oct 15 #1
Putin enid602 Oct 15 #2
Please remember where the Rat Lines settled in 1945. /nt bucolic_frolic Oct 15 #3
As the old expression goes nycbos Oct 15 #4
Good point. Irish_Dem Oct 15 #8
Make Argentina Great Again. Take that, MAGA usonian Oct 15 #5
My Read DallasNE Oct 15 #6
link says unavailable Skittles Oct 15 #7
Locking. Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143548008 GP6971 Oct 15 #9

AZJonnie

(1,965 posts)
1. Good indicator of what happens to the economies of countries run by fascist dicktators
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:50 PM
Oct 15

like Trump and Milei, who basically have the same fiscal policies. I expect the USA to be run into the ground similarly over the next 3 years

enid602

(9,574 posts)
2. Putin
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:52 PM
Oct 15

Good luck trying to get Putin to n”bail us out.

bucolic_frolic

(52,985 posts)
3. Please remember where the Rat Lines settled in 1945. /nt
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:53 PM
Oct 15

nycbos

(6,624 posts)
4. As the old expression goes
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:56 PM
Oct 15

Don’t ask a woman her age, a man his salary l, and an Argentine his Grandfather’s SS rank

Irish_Dem

(76,938 posts)
8. Good point.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:19 PM
Oct 15

usonian

(21,962 posts)
5. Make Argentina Great Again. Take that, MAGA
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:00 PM
Oct 15

You been f---ed over real good!



Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me.


DallasNE

(7,902 posts)
6. My Read
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:06 PM
Oct 15

Trump has already said the deal is off if Argentina doesn’t vote Milei back in. Here Trump ups the blackmail stakes. So much for Congress being in charge of America’s finances. Petty cash, this is not.

Skittles

(168,320 posts)
7. link says unavailable
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:08 PM
Oct 15

GP6971

(37,048 posts)
9. Locking. Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143548008
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:03 PM
Oct 15
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