The Elon Musk-led Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) aims to hundreds of thousands of credit cards associated with several federal agencies.
The department announced Monday that more than 200,000 credit cards connected to 16 federal agencies have been deactivated after revealing that audits are unused or unnecessary, Fox News It has been reported on tuesday.
Doge shared the news in X's post, write“”Credit card updates every week! A pilot program with 16 agents auditing unused/unnecessary credit cards. Three weeks later, over 200,000 cards were removed. Great progress this week @hhsgov @interior. “
However, the department said “.As a reminder, there were around 4.6 million active cards/accounts at the start of the audit.
Social media users quickly shared their thoughts on credit card cancellations.
“It appears that no manager or HR personnel audited anything or closed something. I'm confident about how well I'm not working,” said one person. I answered.
“Hell outside these credit cards,” another user I said.
The news is because Doge is working to cut wasteful government spending. According to the Fox report:
The agencies which have had credit cards cancelled include the General Services Administration (GSA), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Labor Department, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Education Department, the Interior Department, the Treasury Department, the Commerce Department, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agriculture Department (USDA), NASA, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland Security, Social Security Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In the internal division, credit card terminations have been the largest with nearly 20,000 purchase cards and nearly 40,000 travel cards cancelled. HHS is the second, with over 43,700 travel credit cards and 2,235 purchase cards cancelled.
According to a recent Breitbart News report, the Pentagon holds many credit cards and is wasting a lot of money.
Breitbart News continues:
Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector Report It was last released $500,000 was found in transactions made at the month, casinos and mobile app stores. Major sporting events including bars, nightclubs and supermarkets bowl. There weren't even a further 3.9 million deals totaling $1.2 billion. The IGs reviewed by the supervisor were found. Overall, Elon Musk's dog It's not covered Over 4 million government credit cards responsible for 90 Million transactions.
Doge's calculations show taxpayers have saved $105 billion so far, Breitbart News reported on March 4th.
