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Louisiana’s Office of Inspector General just got a massive $3.3 million budget boost—now pumping $5.5 million annually—to hunt down waste in state government, as Governor Jeff Landry ramps up his “LA DOGE” anti-waste crusade. New head Angele Davis, formerly on Landry’s Fiscal Responsibility team, plans to spend $3 million on outside consultants to pinpoint savings using AI and data analytics. While Landry’s team boasts past billion-dollar savings, transparency around those efforts has been murky. Now formalized under the Louisiana Taxpayer Protection Initiative, every agency—even those not legally required—must cooperate with Davis’s office, which insists no department is off-limits.

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