Overview
- At a Miami briefing, CFO Blaise Ingoglia said the city exceeded a reasonable spending level by $94 million based on inflation and population growth benchmarks.
- He said the general fund rose 44% from 2019 to 2024, with 193 additional full-time positions and an estimated $15,320 in budget growth per new resident.
- City officials called the analysis incomplete and politically motivated, citing Miami’s urban-core obligations and service demands beyond resident counts.
- Ingoglia said detailed calculations are not yet public but pledged to release supporting data, as DOGE claims more than $1.1 billion in excess across eight localities this year.
- The findings are shaping the Nov. 4 Miami elections and property-tax debates, with candidates split on the report and Mayor Francis Suarez defending recent tax-rate cuts.