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Florida’s ongoing audit of local government spending found its worst offender yet — Miami-Dade County — in terms of total dollars exceeding proper budgeting, CFO Blaise Ingoglia announced.

Until this week, he said, the state’s DOGE initiative had uncovered $1.2 billion in wasteful spending across eight local governments.

Adding DOGE’s numbers for Miami-Dade pushes the total past $1.5 billion.

In the last fiscal year, Ingoglia said to a roomful of gasps Thursday at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus, Miami-Dade spends $302 million more than it should, even after accounting for inflation and population growth.

That’s also not counting the $400 million budget gap Mayor

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