Chainsaw to the cabinet: from 18 to 9 ministries

The first decree of Milei's presidency amended the Ministries Law No. 22.520 (consolidated text Decree 438/1992) establishing that the Nation's affairs are handled by the Cabinet Chief and NINE (9) ministries. The 9 ministries, per the decree text, are: Interior; Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship; Defense; Economy; Infrastructure; Justice; Security; Health; and Human Capital (which centralized Education, Culture, Labor and Social Development). The number '9' and the nominal list are confirmed in the primary source; the contrast with '18' is context about the previous ministerial structure (it does not appear as such in the decree). The reduction was not reversed; there were later internal reorganizations (renamings, area transfers, e.g. DNU 58/2025 renamed Security to 'National Security') but the original instrument remains operational and there was never a return to the previous structure. verif · Dec 10, 2023 ↗

Signed on 12/10/2023 (inauguration day; verbatim decree citation 'City of Buenos Aires, 12/10/2023') and published in the Official Gazette on 12/11/2023 (notice 300727). In force since its publication, subject to the process of the Permanent Bicameral Committee (Law 26.122). verif · Dec 11, 2023 ↗

The entire centralized and decentralized National Public Administration: bodies, state companies, security forces, and the health, education, labor and social-development systems that came to report to consolidated portfolios. It reconfigures the institutional windows/interlocutors with which investors and companies deal. verif · Dec 10, 2023 ↗