KMT defends cuts, while DPP calls them irrational

WORRIES: The cuts raise questions about whether the government can maintain basic operations and quickly respond to the public’s needs, a Cabinet official said Staff reporters, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Cabinet traded barbs over cuts to the central government budget, with KMT caucus whip Fu Kun-chi saying that the 1.689 percent reduction to this year’s central government budget should be seen as a gesture of “great goodwill,” while the Cabinet described the cuts as “irrational.”Lawmakers from the KMT and the Taiwan People’s Party, who together hold a majority in the legislature, passed the cuts on Friday amid strenuous objections from the central government and Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers.The cuts included NT$10 million (US$3