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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Doge-ish comes to Florida: a DeSantis loyalist is going after ‘waste’ in Democratic cities

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Ron DeSantis speaks in Miami on 25 September 2025. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images

The words of Blaise Ingoglia, the Ron DeSantis loyalist handpicked to lead the Republican Florida governor’s Doge-style assault on local government spending, could not have been more prophetic.

“Expect a knock on the door from us,” Ingoglia warned on 1 October as he announced upcoming audits for Democratic-run cities and counties whose “excessively wasteful” pecuniary habits displeased the DeSantis administration.

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