Taiwan's opposition-led freeze on the presidential office's discretionary budget wiped out mooncake orders from 37 sheltered workshops that employ disabled workers, a blow to those workshops weeks before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

• Opposition KMT and TPP lawmakers froze and cut the presidential discretionary fund, killing 15,000 boxes of mooncake orders.
• The workshops now employ disabled people and are mailing out buy-one-get-one order forms to the public to survive.
• Buying gift boxes from disability groups was routine practice under Chen Shui-bian, Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen — it was existing purchasing steered toward these workshops, not extra charity spending.
• The DPP named KMT lawmakers running for mayor or county chief who voted for the cut or skipped the vote, calling it political revenge on the weakest.
• Legislative speaker Han Kuo-yu had urged colleagues to think twice before cutting; they went ahead anyway.

Outlook: Expect the DPP to keep hammering this as a campaign issue against KMT local-election candidates while the workshops scramble to sell directly to the public.