The Broward County Commission is scheduled to end its annual summer recess Thursday morning to take up a $2 billion budget for the new fiscal year that resists pressure to increase funding for police, fire rescue and public transportation.

The budget does not address the state’s recent efforts to identify allegedly wasteful spending at the county level — an accusation from the governor’s office that spurred the state’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency to conduct what it called an audit of Broward’s “woke” spending practices. That’s in addition to DOGE scrutinizing many other local governments’ spending across the state.

That analysis, which is ongoing, was never intended to have an impact on this year’s budget, which was already subjected to a year of discussion and nego

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