Where the US got $20B to bail out Argentina

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  N-P-R.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Stephen Misaha.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  Last month,

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  a reporter on Air Force One asked President Donald Trump about his administration's recent deal with Argentina.

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  The country's currency, the peso, is volatile and had plummeted in September.

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  And the U.S.

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  government had agreed to extend Argentina $20 billion in what's called a swap line,

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  which is essentially a loan.

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  for their life.

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  You understand what that means?

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  They have no money.

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  They have no anything.

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  They're fighting so hard to survive.

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  Democratic lawmakers blasted a decision to prop up the Argentine peso during a U.S.

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  government shutdown.

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  They said the administration was being reckless with American taxpayer money.

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  Money, it might not even get back.

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  So where did the US get the money from?

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