Because the Six Year National Development Plan and the National Defense Plan have sharply raised national expenses, plus given the government's "fat-cutting" policy, as well as dramatic shifts in the political environment, in a single stroke the Legislative Yuan pruned NT $ 2 billion from the Science and Technology Special Case Program, of which NT $ 1.3 billion came out of ITRI's budget.
由於「六年國建」及國防計畫使國家支出急遽增加，加上政府既定的「減肥」政策，及政治生態丕變，立法院大筆一揮，刪減了科技專案計畫廿億的預算，其中工研院約佔十三億。