Just four days into 2025, President Javier Milei and Vice President Victoria Villarruel are already having their first spat of the year after multiple standoffs in 2024.

Hours after Villarruel complained she had “the lowest salary” in the government, Milei fired back that his running mate was “detached from Argentines’ reality” while noting that he had refused her request for a raise.

“Soon, I’ll be earning two pennies, and I am the vice president,” Villarruel replied to one of her followers on Instagram early Saturday morning. Two days earlier, she announced that she would be renewing a freeze on senators’ salaries that went into effect in August.

Members of the upper chamber of Congress had been scheduled for a raise that would have increased their monthly salaries from AR$9........

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