This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
President Donald Trump and his executive branch Department of Government Efficiency, run by billionaire Elon Musk, are working to save American taxpayers perhaps up to a trillion dollars.
Already, estimates are that $65 billion has been cut from federal spending.
Now states are getting in the act.
Although they don't deal with trillions of dollars, savings of millions, hundreds of millions, even billions, will impact taxpayers significantly.
Just the News documents how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced his state's version, the State Department of Governmental Efficiency Task Force.
"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," DeSantis explained. "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."
It's actually not an entirely new concept in the state, as it has "eliminated dozens of unnecessary boards and lifted needless regulations," already saved billions for residents, and paid down 41% of state debt while boosting rainy day funding by more than $9 billlion – all since DeSantis took office in 2019.
The state said the new task force will use a variety of methods to target and eliminate bureaucratic bloat, including artificial intelligence.
Its goals include eliminating another 70 boards and commissions, taking a deep dive into "all facets of college and university operations and spending," and look at local government spending.
"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," the report said.
