A budget fight in Taiwan's legislature has put mooncake orders from disability workshops at risk, and both sides are blaming each other.

• Opposition lawmakers used their majority to cut and freeze the presidential office's entire NT$30 million discretionary budget.
• That put an order of 15,000 Mid-Autumn gift boxes from 37 sheltered workshops and disability groups in doubt.
• President Lai Ching-te paid out of his own pocket to buy holiday gift boxes from welfare groups instead.
• Taichung mayoral candidate Chiang Chi-chen has stayed quiet, and his campaign says the cut targeted the discretionary fund, not the mooncake money specifically.
• His camp accuses the ruling party of using disabled workers as a political prop, noting the mooncake orders are a small slice of the fund.

Outlook: Expect the row to keep running through the Mid-Autumn season as Taichung's mayoral race heats up.