Argentinian leader flies to Florida for unexpected Trump and Musk gathering
Argentinian President makes a surprise visit to Mar-a-Lago becoming first foreign leader to meet with Trump. The visit includes planned talks with Elon Musk about reducing government costs
Javier Milei arrived at Mar-a-Lago on 11/15/24‚ marking a first-of-its-kind meeting with Donald Trump since his re-election (while Elon Musk has been staying at the property for several days)
The Argentinian leader‚ who took power last winter has made big-time changes in his country: he shut down many state offices and let-go about 15k workers. His next stop includes a sit-down with Musk to talk about cost-saving ideas
In a related move‚ Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy got picked to lead a new-fangled agency called DoGE – which aims to cut down US government costs. The tech mogul who bought X (ex-Twitter) in late-22 and cut most of its staff; now wants to do something similar with federal spending
This will be tedious work‚ make lots of enemies and compensation is zero
The economic facts show quite different pictures: Argentina deals with super-high inflation (250%) and owes lots to IMF; while US economy grows at 2.7% with low inflation. Still Musk thinks thereʼs room for budget-cuts
Muskʼs schedule has been packed lately – he joined a call between Trump and Zelenskyy‚ plus met with Iranʼs UN rep to discuss west-east relations (but this Milei meeting might be less controversial than those)
