WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stopped short Tuesday of promising Argentina’s President Javier Milei a financial bailout from the Latin American country’s economic turmoil.
“We’re going to help them. I don’t think they need a bailout,” Trump told reporters. He sat alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Milei on Tuesday afternoon on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“Scott is working with their country so that they can get good debt and all of the things that you need to make Argentina great again,” he said.
Bessent posted on X Monday that “all options for stabilization are on the table” for Argentina.
Options being contemplated include the purchase of Argentina’s currency or sovereign debt by a fund controlled by the U.S. Treasury, call