WATCH BELOW AT 2:30 P.M.<\/p>\n
Florida’s CFO will be in St. Lucie County on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to a news release, CFO Blaise Ingoglia will hold a news conference in Fort Pierce at 2:30 p.m. regarding “government accountability.”<\/p>\n
Ingoglia has made headlines over the last year in his pursuit to curb local government overspending across the state. <\/p>\n
A 99-page report<\/a> released by the CFO’s office last month claimed DOGE teams “reviewed 11 local governments over the last six months and exposed more than $1.86 billion in excessive wasteful spending.”<\/p>\n Among the government agencies analyzed by Ingoglia’s team, the CFO said that Palm Beach County topped the list with $344 million in overspending.<\/a> That figure has been met with pushback<\/a> from county leaders, who are challenging the report’s accuracy and demanding transparency from state officials.<\/p>\n Stay with WPTV for updates on the CFO’s visit to Fort Pierce on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Read more of WPTV’s related coverage below:<\/p>\n Palm Beach County<\/p>\n ‘SHOW US’: Palm Beach County demands answers from DOGE audit numbers<\/p>\n Money<\/p>\n $344M overspending claim ‘not transparent,’ county administrator says<\/p>\n Palm Beach County<\/p>\n DOGE audits of local governments ‘are not going to go away,’ Florida CFO says <\/p>\n Palm Beach County<\/p>\n County official disputes $344M waste claim from state<\/p>\n Palm Beach County<\/p>\n READ: DOGE report blasts local governments for ‘excessive spending’<\/p>\n Money<\/p>\n DOGE audit results could be released soon, Florida CFO says<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH BELOW AT 2:30 P.M. Florida’s CFO will be in St. Lucie County on Wednesday afternoon. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-160157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}