Governor Ron DeSantis announced the creation of a Florida DOGE task force, which will work to further eliminate waste within state government, save taxpayers money, and ensure accountability in Florida as the State Department of Governmental Efficiency. The Florida Democratic Party responded by attacking the Governor and Republicans.
The Florida State DOGE Task Force will implement a multi-pronged approach to eliminating bureaucratic bloat and modernizing our state government to best serve the people of Florida. It will also utilize AI and new technologies to identify waste and noncompliance. The task force will serve a one-year term which will sunset following the completion of the term.
According to Governor DeSantis, Florida’s DOGE will:
- Eliminate Bureaucracy
- Florida will abolish an additional 70 boards and commissions this year.
- Review Colleges and Universities
- Florida will conduct a deep dive into all facets of college and university operations and spending and make recommendations to the Board of Governors and State Board of Education to eliminate any wasteful spending.
- Further Examine State Agencies
- Florida will utilize AI to supplement ongoing efforts to review operations at our state agencies and identify more ways to cut unnecessary spending and eliminate bureaucracy.
- Audit Local Governments
- State task force will look into local government expenditures by utilizing publicly available county and municipal spending records to expose bloat within local governance.
- Return Unused & Surplus Federal Dollars
- Florida will aid DOGE’s federal efforts to save taxpayers’ money by returning unused or surplus federal dollars allocated to the state.
“Florida has set the standard for fiscally conservative governance, and our new Florida DOGE task force will do even more to serve the people of Florida,” said Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. “It will eliminate redundant boards and commissions, review state university and college operations and spending, utilize artificial intelligence to further examine state agencies to uncover hidden waste, and even audit the spending habits of local entities to shine the light on waste and bloat.”
The Florida Democratic Party response was more of an attack on Governor DeSantis and Republicans.
“Ron DeSantis needs to shut his damn mouth,” said FDP Chair Nikki Fried. “Republicans have been in total control of Florida’s government for nearly 30 years, and he wants to talk about government waste? Ron has consistently passed the largest state budgets in Florida’s history, illegally spent millions of taxpayer dollars to run political campaigns to take down Amendments 3 & 4 and just allocated $250 million to fund his political stunt on immigration. Don’t lecture us on wasting taxpayer dollars.
“We all know this isn’t about reigning in spending — it’s about Trump endorsing Byron Donalds instead of Casey DeSantis,” the top Florida Democrat continued. “Maybe Ron should have considered the political consequences before he decided to run against the leader of his party for president.”
Under Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida has the lowest number of government workers per capita in the country yet the Republican says the state provides better services at a lower cost than any other state of comparable size. Since Governor DeSantis took office in 2019, Florida has continually cut government and trimmed waste:
- Florida has eliminated dozens of unnecessary boards and lifted needless regulations.
- We’ve saved billions for Floridians year after year, including $3.5 billion in spending last year.
- Florida has paid down 41% of state debt and increased our rainy day funds by over $9.4 billion.
Read the enacting Executive Order for Florida DOGE efforts here:
I’m not a Democrat,but I am against Trump and his administration. I will never align with white supremists, and white Nationalist. I am an American!!! My father fought in a war to free us from Natzi’s – Stop trying to push your Trump shit on the people , not buying it anymore.
The premise.. past adminstratiors, elected officals and even the current governor and his department heads were incompetent in managing their agencies. Instead of DOGE why don’t we fire those in power now. We have no reason to copycat everything done by Trump. Florida is working fine without all these “syncophant” changes. Time to stop this madness and use common sense to make the state a better place to live for everyone. In history everyone did not follow Hitler. There were people that stoos boldly and showed integrity and character. Time for Florida to take the leadrrship role on good judgment and leadership “For the people.”