US President Donald Trump points a finger as he welcomes Argentina's President Javier Milei at the White House on Tuesday. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

If President Donald Trump is worried the $20 billion economic lifeline he’s sending to Argentina in the middle of a US government shutdown might cause him political headaches, he didn’t show it Tuesday.

Instead, as he sat for lunch with his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, Trump said in no uncertain terms that the injection of US dollars was about bolstering a top ideological ally who faces a political reckoning. And he was explicit that US economic support is conditional on Milei remaining in power.

“If he wins, we’re staying with him,” Trump said in the Cabinet Room, betraying little concern about blowback for the infusion of cash

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