The budget speech by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak on Oct 21 merely serves as a summary for the documents and bills tabled before the government, said Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng.

This comes after Works Minister Works Minister Fadillah Yusof chided that Lim would have known where the money for compensating highway concessionaires was coming from, had he stayed and listened to the entirety of Najib’s speech.

Lim claimed that RM10 billion that was supposedly allocated to "ease the costs of living" including toll charges, was not present in the 2017 Federal Expenditure Estimates Report that was tabled in Parliament on the same day.