Jacksonville’s budget is approved every year by a City Council with a strong Republican majority. Yet Republicans are hoping that a probe by Florida DOGE and Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia will make the city’s Democratic Mayor newly vulnerable.

Even as powerbrokers locally issue off-the-record pronouncements, Friday’s action shows Ingoglia serving as an attack dog against first-term Donna Deegan . In a fiery tweet, Ingoglia said t he “only ‘real momentum’ (Jacksonville) has under (Deegan’s) ‘leadership’ is rising property taxes, a bloated budget and wasteful spending.”

“You’re clearly not listening to the taxpayers. I am,” Ingoglia added, in a post rebroadcast by First Lady Casey DeSantis , who hosted the midday chat show First Coast Living on the same news op

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