MSN – Created through an executive order upon Trump’s return to office in January, DOGE was tasked with reducing workforce size and eliminating inefficiencies. With $40 billion in annual federal spending previously flowing through these credit cards, DOGE’s deactivation campaign aimed to reduce non-essential expenses that can quietly add up across various departments.
(DOGE) has suspended more than half a million federal credit cards in its ongoing effort to slash government spending.
The task force, led by billionaire Elon Musk and launched by President Donald Trump earlier this year, announced that credit cards from 32 federal agencies have been deactivated as part of the initiative.
In a statement released on Wednesday in a post by on X, formerly Twitter, DOGE said that the number of cards suspended in the audit has now passed half a million, meaning over a tenth of all government credit cards have been deactivated by DOGE.
“The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been deactivated,” the statement said.
