Trump and Musk want to borrow Javier Milei's chainsaw

But how well would the Argentine president's radical budget-cutting regime translate to the United States?

When a mop-haired economist brandishing a chainsaw won the presidency of Argentina a year ago, the world greeted Javier Milei’s victory largely as a blip. The election of a budget-slashing libertarian nicknamed “El Loco” was seen by many as a desperate lurch in his country’s chronic struggle for economic stability.

Today Milei’s crusade is a lot closer t…