Legislature loses ‘friendship’ travel funds

FAIR? That the budget cuts affected the Legislative Yuan shows that they aimed to rein in government spending and were not targeted at the Executive Yuan, a legislator said By Chen Cheng-yu and Lo Kuo-chia / Staff reporters Add TT as Preferred Source The legislature has suspended funding for overseas visits by lawmakers’ friendship groups after travel budget cuts, prompting mixed responses from the three major parties.The central government’s budget for this fiscal year was delayed for 351 days before the Legislative Yuan finally passed it on Friday last week. As part of across-the-board cuts, the budgets for overseas travel and training at central government agencies and their affiliated bodies were cut by 30 percent, with exceptions for legally mandated spending, Academia Sinica and the