During an ongoing Summer media tour, Florida’s DOGE office is proclaiming that its primary purpose is fighting corruption rooted in local governments.

“It was great to be boots on the ground with our teams of reviewers as they comb through local government spending,” said Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia as his team arrived in Orange County this week. “Waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars will not be tolerated.

But the reality of Orange County’s DOGE audit appeared to be missing the political fireworks. The tone was professional. The auditors had follow-up questions and asked county officials for context. The discussions often weren’t sexy over what was a data dump of records, nearly 600 gigabytes, or about 183,000 files.

Auditors wanted to know about everythin

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