Auditors from Florida’s Department of Governmental Efficiency, or DOGE, are in Orlando City Hall this week, scrutinizing thousands of pages of financial transactions, staff salaries and city equity initiatives.

Mayor Buddy Dyer said the state auditing team arrived early Monday morning, and a host of city staffers had prepared 27,000 files for them to review. By midday, the DOGE team hadn’t asked for more data, or interviews with certain staffers, or Dyer himself, though the mayor said such a request could come later in the day.

The city’s audit comes a week after Orange County faced its own review by the state officials . The audits are part of a push by Gov. Ron DeSantis to find what he determines as wasteful spending, ahead of an effort to ask voters next year to abolish property tax

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