A fight over cut presidential office funds has spilled onto disabled workers' mooncake orders, and the Taichung city government's AI-assisted defense has made the row worse.

• Opposition lawmakers cut the presidential office's discretionary budget, killing mooncake orders placed with groups that employ disabled workers.
• Taichung mayor Lu Shiu-yen said the presidential office had "abandoned" the orders, so the city would buy the mooncakes instead.
• Deputy mayor Cheng Chao-hsin used Google's Gemini to argue the office had other funding options and that "abandoned order" is a neutral term.
• DPP city councilors called the AI defense a grade-school debating trick that stripped out the context of a deliberate budget cut aimed at paralyzing the central government.

Outlook: The city says it will cover the canceled orders, but the budget fight and the blame-trading between Taichung and the presidential office look set to continue.