Deegan was present in holographic form, allowing the Governor and CFO Blaise Ingoglia to spotlight what Republicans see as wasteful local spending in Jacksonville and beyond. The Republican leaders are pushing to eliminate property taxes on homestead properties and the ongoing audits from the Florida Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), also known as the Florida Agency for Fiscal Oversight (FAFO). While the state is “running out of taxes to cut,” DeSantis said local governments are a different story. Ingoglia said DeSantis told him a few years ago that property taxes were “getting out of hand,” which the CFO attributes to “reckless” local spending. That included the hologram, which he said was $75,000 of “wasteful spending.”Deegan’s office defended the hologram in a statement while the press conference was going on.