Nearly half a million credit cards used by various federal agencies and officials have been deactivated, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced on April 15.
The organization, which was created by President Donald Trump via an executive order and is led by Elon Musk, wrote in a post on social media platform X that credit cards used by more than 30 agencies had been deactivated as part of its bid to reduce government spending.
“Credit Card Update! The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. After 7 weeks, ~470k cards have been de-activated. As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do,” the main X account associated with DOGE said in a post….