Blaise Ingoglia says Miami exceeds appropriate spending by $94M per year, calls budget bulge worst in state

Miami isn’t alone in having an overspending problem, but it’s by far the worst example among local governments that Florida is auditing under its DOGE initiative, CFO Blaise Ingoglia says.

At an afternoon press conference in the “Magic City,” Ingoglia said that even after accounting for factors often cited in explaining bloating budgets — from inflation, population growth and money for more first responders to raises for law enforcement and general government employees — Miami “blew past” the appropriate spending number by $94 million.

“If this was a business, the city of Miami would go bankrupt,” he said. “This is money that should be back in the hands of the taxpayer and not in the hands of a government bureaucrat.”

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