Taiwan's opposition KMT is under fire for cutting a presidential office budget that funded gift box orders from disability workshops, then failing to follow through on a promise to buy the boxes itself.

• KMT lawmakers cut and froze the presidential office's discretionary fund, killing orders for 15,000 Mid-Autumn gift boxes from 37 sheltered workshops that employ disabled workers.
• Party chair Cheng Li-wun said the KMT would buy all the boxes itself, but several workshops said they only got a phone inquiry and no actual order.
• One Kaohsiung group said the party asked about 300 boxes, never called back, and left it stuck with packaging it had already paid for.
• KMT Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ko Chih-en now says she will personally double the order to 600 boxes if the workshops were hurt.

Outlook: The row is likely to keep hurting the KMT ahead of the Kaohsiung mayoral race unless the party actually places the orders.