KMT set to freeze drone development budget

WIDESPREAD: The deadlock has not only impacted national defense, but also funding for social welfare, major railway projects and high-technology supply chains, officials said By Lin Che-yuan, Cheng Cheng-yu and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus is poised to freeze a NT$44.2 billion (US$1.37 billion) six-year budget for drone industry development, modifying an earlier proposal to scrap the funding entirely, as the legislature aims to pass this year’s long-stalled general budget today.If the budget does not pass today, all caucuses have agreed that an extra session would be held on Monday next week to continue to review the bill.The KMT caucus said the Executive Yuan’s drone program, which was only approved o