Taiwan's Cabinet is set to sign off on an opposition-backed drone and defense-industry law and pay for it out of the regular budget, a win for the KMT that also reopens a fight over which laws the executive chooses to enact.

• The Cabinet plans to countersign the KMT-drafted law on defense self-reliance and drone-vehicle industry development, and fold the money into this year's supplementary budget.
• It had held back the extra spending plan for a week to see how the vote went, then said only that it deeply regretted the outcome and would fund it quickly.
• KMT deputy secretary-general Hsu Yu-chen says this exposes eight earlier bills the Cabinet refused to countersign, calling it selective law-keeping rather than constitutional procedure.
• Her argument: if a government dislikes a law it can ask lawmakers to reconsider, and if it loses that vote it must publish and carry the law out.
• The funding shift also undercuts the Cabinet's earlier insistence that a NT$210 billion defense package had to go through a special budget.

Outlook: The money moves to next year's general budget instead, where the KMT says it will scrutinize every line, keeping the standoff over legislative oversight alive.