Despite the government’s adjustment policy, the Presidency doubled this year the “spending on travel expenses and tickets” of the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The government sector that manages Karina Milei It is responsible for managing the libertarian president’s travels around the world and in 2026 it increased by 62.5 percent. By the end of 2025, some $2,531 million had been spent on this concept, while $4,112 million are projected to be spent this year.
The increase is consistent with the air raid in which it entered Javier Milei in the last 60 days, with visits to Davos, Miami, New York, Madrid, Budapest and Santiago de Chile. The Head of State has already spent 116 days – almost four months – outside Argentina so far in his administration, according to the Open Budget data that was analyzed by the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) for Página/12, in a note published by journalist Matías Ferrari.
A curious fact is the one mentioned in Administrative Decision 9/2026, published in the Official Gazette at the end of February, which limited the integration of delegations abroad to “a maximum of one official or authority for each international event”, with the declared objective of “promoting efficient management of State resources”. However, the rule was immediately obsolete when it was discovered that Bettina Angeletti, wife of the Chief of Staff Manuel Adornitraveled to New York on the presidential plane within the framework of the Argentina Week event.
The photos of Angeletti as part of a delegation in which he should not have participated not only unleashed the storm of suspicions about Adorni’s assets, but also focused attention on the expenses and reasons for the presidential tours. A group of 13 national deputies, led by Nicolas Trottapresented a request for reports to find out how much the State has spent so far on the trips of Milei and his ministers.
The deputies’ magnifying glass is focused on the private and partisan nature of a good part of the trips, which lacked bilateral agendas with other leaders or institutional activities at the level of a representative of the Argentine State. In December 2025, Milei traveled to Oslo, Norway, to celebrate the Nobel Peace Prize that the Venezuelan activist received. Corina Machado. A frustrated tour because both could not meet during the delivery.
On the other hand, the president attended the Spanish capital at a private event organized by the Iberian right called “Madrid Economic Forum”, where Milei met Santiago Abascalleader of the far-right party VOX, and later with the economist Jesús Huerta de Soto. He later received the “commemorative award in honor of the economist Ludwig von Mises”, awarded by the academic Philipp Bagus.
In Madrid, Milei stayed in the presidential suite of the Hyatt Regency Hesperia, which cost around 5,200 euros per night, to which we would have to add everything that was required for the ceremony and the rest of the entourage, in addition to the fuel and parking for the ARG 01 plane, the same report highlighted. The last of the tours, last weekend, was to Hungary, to participate in the Conservative Action Conference (CPAC), in this case the libertarian leader chose to travel alone with his sister Karina and Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno.
For this reason, the request for reports from the opposition deputies pointed out that “the purpose and financing of these trips of the President must be determined” because there is the suspicion that “they do not respond even minimally to institutional objectives, duly founded and evaluable in terms of results for our country.”
Until mid-March, the General Secretariat of the Presidency had declared about $361 million pesos in travel, around 260 thousand dollars. The question is what figure the Presidency declares throughout the year, when the budget execution on the matter settles. In 2025, for example, $1,665 million had been budgeted and $2,531 million ended up being spent.
According to Salinas’ analysis, Milei has made 37 trips abroad so far in his mandate. The different tours took him about 116 days in total, which means that the President has spent 14% of his administration’s time outside of Argentina so far. It’s almost four months. To this conclusive fact is added the enormous number of times that Milei traveled to the United States: there were 16 in total. They are followed by Italy with 5, Spain with 4 and other countries such as Brazil, Switzerland and the Vatican with 3.
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