Local governments across Florida find themselves in the path of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest crusade.

A dozen city and county governments have been visited in recent weeks by state auditors on the lookout for what they say is waste and fraud in local spending.

It’s all a part of DeSantis’ Florida DOGE effort — so named as an homage to billionaire Elon Musk’s government spending crackdown in Washington, D.C.

The governor’s hand-picked chief financial officer, Blaise Ingoglia, who’s running for a full term to the statewide post in 2026, has made the effort a campaign calling card.

“When it comes to waste, fraud and abuse,” Ingoglia said at an August news conference in Orlando, “local governments seem to be far and away the worst when it comes to this spending.”

Spending has grown at all

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