Florida DOGE officials entered Palm Beach County government offices Monday, spending hours with county officials to dissect how the nearly $9 billion budget is spent.

“This is a good way for us to learn where we have efficiencies. And you know, if there is something that we should be doing better, it’s up to us to learn to do it better,” Mayor Maria Marino said in an interview with the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Monday in the county’s West Palm Beach government building.

“Oftentimes when you are in a position where you’re looking at something objectively, you’re not part of the equation, you can actually see something that if you’re in it all the time you sometimes miss it,” Marino said. “We’ve got the budget of a small country, so we do need to make sure that we’re doing everything,

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