A budget fight in Taiwan's legislature has killed a Mid-Autumn gift-box order from sheltered workshops, and the two big parties are now blaming each other for the damage to disabled workers.

• Opposition KMT and TPP lawmakers froze and cut the Presidential Office's discretionary budget, wiping out an order for 15,000 gift boxes from 37 sheltered workshops.
• Taichung mayor Lu Shiu-yen said the Presidential Office had "abandoned" the order and offered to have her city buy the boxes instead.
• DPP lawmaker Lin Chun-hsien fired back that the Presidential Office wanted to buy them and it was the KMT in the legislature that made it impossible.
• The orders matter beyond the money: being a Presidential Office supplier is a quality stamp these workshops use to win corporate customers.
• Lin accused the KMT of creating a problem and then rushing in to solve it, calling it shooting itself in the foot, and pointed to heavy public backlash against the lawmaker behind the cuts.

Outlook: Expect the fight to keep running as a political blame game ahead of Mid-Autumn, with the workshops caught in the middle unless someone actually places the order.