Govt, opposition MPs want better fiscal discipline in supplementary budgets

• UPDATED 4.40PM | Added Wong Chen's comments on supporting a limit to supplementary budgets.

PARLIAMENT | Lawmakers from both sides of the divide want the government to improve on the practice of tabling supplementary budget, after the government spent more than they originally budgeted for.

The matter arose while MPs debated a bill for a supplementary budget of RM7 billion to cover operation expenditure from last year. The government has also attached to the bill a request for RM4.97 billion to cover additional 2019 development expenditure....