Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia is planning a news conference Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state’s analysis of spending by Broward County government — a review that was a tentpole of the governor’s justification to create a statewide Department of Governmental Efficiency.

A news release from his office said the conference in Broward would be about “government accountability and wasteful spending.” Just two weeks ago, Ingoglia was giving the DOGE effort credit for the county’s passage of a modest property tax rate cut, a decision to modestly cut the local share of property tax rates.

Some officials had been trying to get a rate cut passed for a few years, but it wasn’t until after the DOGE inspectors arrived and took a look at the books that the County Commission saw

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