DOGE 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 that more than 500,000 agency credit cards were deactivated in that time period. That number is out of roughly 4.6 million active cards and accounts used by the government. “So, still more work to do,” the organization wrote in its post, which included a screenshot of a spreadsheet showing the canceled agency cards....