Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava defended the county’s finances after Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia released an audit on Thursday alleging the the state's largest county is overspending taxpayer dollars by more than $300 million.

Ingoglia said the state audit, which claims Miami-Dade is overspending $302,610,668, is based on indexed calculations for inflation and population growth.

He said Miami-Dade population had risen by 65,501 people since FY 2019-2020, but that the budget had ballooned $12,884 for individuals and $51,535 for a family of four.

Ingoglia called it the “highest amount of wasteful spending across the nine local governments that have been reviewed.”

Ingoglia has been leading the charge with the state’s version of DOGE , the Department of

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