In news from and about Taiwan this morning,

A legislative review of the 2025 central government budget remains stalled
after opposition lawmakers demanded the Cabinet revise its spending plan.

The vote on the motion was proposed K-M-T lawmakers.

And nine of the 17 lawmakers in attendance supported it - effectively
stopping any further reviews of the budget outside of the Procedure
Committee.

D-P-P lawmaker Shen Fa-hui is describing the move as "unprecedented" arguing
that the main task of the new legislative session is to review and pass the
budget bill.

However, K-M-T lawmaker Chen Yu-ren has been quick to point out that
President Lai Ching-te and Premier Cho Jung-tai employed the same procedural
tactic in the D-P-P's failed move to hold up the central government budget
bill when they were lawmakers in 2008.

The vote comes after the lawmakers from the K-M-T and Taiwan People's Party
sent the budget bill back to the Procedure Committee during last Friday's
legislative session.

Both parties demanded the Cabinet submit a revised budget bill that addresses
an expected rise in compensation due to the amended Logging Ban Compensation
for Lands Reserved for Indigenous Peoples Act ...

.... as well as legislative resolutions, such as hiking the price for
government acquisition of public food stocks.

2025's budget bill has to be be approved by the Legislature one month before
the new fiscal year begins on New Year's Day.

However, the 2022 and 2023 budgets were both passed in January.