President Javier Milei’s government has halved the amount of emergency aid assigned to Bahía Blanca in the wake of torrential storms last March – just days after winning the backing of voters in the southern Buenos Aires Province city. In September 7 elections for the provincial legislature, Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party won 46.1 percent of the vote in Bahía Blanca – a rare success for the ruling party in the region, which overall lost heavily to the opposition Peronist front. In a measure published in the Official Gazette last week, the Milei administration slashed the size of its special emergency aid fund for Bahía Blanca from 200 billion pesos to 100 billion pesos. The measure not only hits families still awaiting aid, but will also affect infrastructure works to repair flood damage. On March 7, Bahía Blanca suffered one of the most devastating storms in its recent history.