Legislature expected to vote on this year’s budget today

By Chen Cheng-yu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source The ruling and opposition parties are expected to vote on this fiscal year’s budget today, with opposition parties still promoting major cuts after failing to reach inter-party consensus again yesterday.The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus called to slash all NT$44.2 billion (US$1.37 billion) in funds for the government’s uncrewed vehicle industry development project.As the project has not reached consensus and all caucuses wished to continue talks, Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) said the issue would be kept under discussion. Staff from various government ministries monitor the progress of cross-caucus budget negotiations from an adjacent room at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterd