The Department of Government Efficiency has deactivated 15,000 more government credit cards since instituting a freeze in late February, the group tweeted in a Tuesday update, bringing the running total to nearly 315,000.
DOGE, the effort to cut waste and fraud in government spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk, is conducting an audit of what it claims is “unused/unneeded” government credit cards.
On Feb. 26, President Donald Trump issued an executive order implementing a 30-day freeze on credit cards held by government employees, temporarily giving them $1 credit limits.
Cards used for disaster relief or natural disaster response benefits or operations or “other critical services as determined by the Agency Head, and subject to such additional individualized or categorical exceptions as the Agency Head, in consultation with the agency’s DOGE Team Lead” were excused from the order.
“As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do,” the DOGE account tweeted Sunday.
On Tuesday, the account said it cut 15,000 more government credit cards.
While Musk and Trump claim the cuts make the government more efficient, federal workers who relied on the cards for work-related travel faced difficulties.