As Diet discussions shifts into top gear, the confrontation between the ruling and opposition is growing fierce over a ¥2 trillion household cash-benefit package that is included in a second supplementary budget for fiscal 2008. The opposition wants the ¥2 trillion plan dropped from the budget and proposes discussing use of the money directly for social welfare and employment once the budget has been revised. Even some ruling bloc lawmakers doubt the cash-benefit measure would stimulate the economy.