by Sarah Anderson, PJ Media:
Javier Milei has done great things for Argentina — and honestly, the entire region — and will continue to do so, but I have to admit that his latest proposal left me weak in the knees. He’s calling it the grillete fiscal or the “fiscal shackle,” and it’s part of a larger reform of the Central Bank’s charter that he’s sending to the country’s Congress, possibly for a mid-to-late-August vote.
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I said we would achieve a fiscal balance in our first year in office, and we achieved it in the first month. Today, we can say that we lifted fourteen million Argentines out of poverty.
LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT…!!! pic.twitter.com/7CYUTZcezE
— Milei in English – Official Account (@jmilei_english) August 1, 2026
Essentially, if the Argentine national government runs a fiscal deficit for several months in a row, the Congress receives a warning that it has a matter of weeks to fix it. If it doesn’t hit the deadline, the “shackle” activates automatically, and the political class will be the ones impacted. Here’s what happens:
1. Non-essential government functions are suspended (hello, government shutdown).
2. All new spending is frozen and will not be authorized until the problem is resolved.
3. No new contracts can be awarded.
4. No new public-sector employees can be hired.
5. Discretionary transfers to the provinces are halted.
And last but not least, the best part:
6. The salaries of the top politicians stop completely. The vice president, ministers, secretaries, undersecretaries, national senators, national deputies, and even El presidente himself will not receive a dime of taxpayer money until they solve the problem.
