US EditionDOGE deactivates over 500,000 credit cards
- Over a 10-week audit concluding in early May 2025, the federal agency DOGE deactivated more than half a million unused credit cards across 32 government agencies.
- This effort began under a January 2025 executive order by President Donald Trump to reduce wasteful spending and curb fraud in government credit card usage.
- DOGE, led by Elon Musk’s anti-corruption team, audits cards linked to $40 billion in annual federal spending, restricting purchases for 30 days without disrupting essential operations.
- Since its inception, DOGE has achieved savings totaling approximately $165 billion, characterized these credit cards as unnecessary, and affirmed continued efforts to deactivate additional cards to reduce expenses.
- The campaign signifies a major government downsizing initiative but faces political opposition and lawsuits aiming to block further cuts and reforms.
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Zero HedgeDOGE Announces Deactivation of 500,000 Federal Credit Cards
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said on Wednesday that it has canceled around half a million “unneeded” credit cards used by federal agencies. In a “credit card update,” DOGE said on its social media account on X on Wednesday that over the past 10 weeks, its program to audit “unused” or “unneeded” credit cards has been expanded to 32 federal agencies. DOGE, led by tech billionaire and Trump administration adviser Elon Musk, said t…
DOGE Deactivates 500,000 Federal Credit Cards Amid $40B Spending Audit
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reported it had deactivated over 500,000 federal credit cards as part of a broad audit initiative. Back in February, DOGE revealed that these surplus cards had been responsible for 90 million transactions, totaling $40 billion in spending for the 2024 fiscal year. The General Services Administration (GSA) noted that the average amount per transaction on a federal card was $441. Providing an update o…
DOGE Deactivates 500,000 Government-Issued Credit Cards
The Department of Government Efficiency announced Wednesday that it had deactivated more than 500,000 government-issued credit cards as part of a rapidly-expanding audit that is expected to result in additional deactivations. “The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated,” DOGE announced in an X post. The department noted that at the start of the a…
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