Taiwan People's Party Chairman Huang Kuo-chang paid out of his own pocket to buy mooncakes for sheltered workshops, but was criticised for grandstanding, given that KMT and TPP legislators had just cut and frozen the Presidential Office's budget — bad news for the employment rights of people with disabilities.

• The KMT and TPP joined forces to cut and freeze NT$30 million from the Presidential Office's state affairs fund, stalling orders for 15,000 boxes of Mid-Autumn Festival gift sets from 37 sheltered workshops nationwide.
• Huang Kuo-chang dug into his own pocket to buy 100 boxes of mooncakes and held a press conference, where he also asked Lai Ching-te how many boxes he could buy on his monthly salary of NT$460,000.
• Media commentator Chan Ling-yu criticised the move as "setting the fire yourself and then buying mooncakes to put it out," noting that it was Huang Kuo-chang's own camp that voted to cut and freeze the budget.
• With 100 boxes against a shortfall of 15,000, the gesture does not even cover a fraction of the gap, and has been described as a bid for headlines rather than genuine redress.
• Chan Ling-yu also brought up Ko Wen-je's NT$30 million bail, remarking sarcastically that "saving Ko meant suitcases of cash, while saving the disadvantaged means nothing but talk."

Outlook: The order shortfall at the sheltered workshops will be hard to fill in the short term, and this budget standoff looks set to keep burning as a political issue in the partisan crossfire.