One of the things that has happened since the Department Of Government Efficiency started the audits, was finding out how badly abused government credit cards were by bureaucrats. President Trump’s answer to that was to take their credit cards away from them.
When I say took their cards away, what they actually did was set the limit on what they could charge to almost zero. This has set off all the precious snowflakes in the various bureaucracies to whine and complain. Here are the details from Newsmax:
The Trump administration, working with the Department of Government Efficiency, has been using a $1 limit on thousands of government-issued credit cards to manage spending.
The Washington Post reported that many government employees are upset at the spending restriction, which they say has led to some programs essentially being eliminated.
And the problem with this is, what exactly?
Craig McLean, a former researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told the Post, “No matter where you look, there is a delay and a complication based on this ludicrous requirement that the secretary has implemented.” He referenced Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s requirement that contracts over $100,000 must be approved by him.
What an arrogant piece of shit. Of course, I noticed that he is listed as a “Former researcher” with NOAA. I have a sneaking suspicion he was one of the bureaucrats invited to seek other opportunities in the dreaded private sector. As to “Ludicrous” requirement? Welcome to the real world moron. I’ve worked in companies where you had to get approval for expenditures of as little as $100 dollars. Like all bureaucrats, you just assumed that you could spend money willy nilly on anything you wanted and not have to justify it.
A February executive order from President Donald Trump initially placed a freeze on nearly every federal spending platform, including credit cards, with a requirement that supervisory level approval was needed to ensure “government spending is transparent and government employees are accountable to the American public.”
There is a reason for this. DOGE has been finding hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending and in many cases, outright fraud. One of the worst found was the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The levels of waste and fraud in this now closed agency rose, in my opinion, to “Lock them all up for 20 years!” levels.
The Post reported that University of Michigan professor Donald Moynihan said it appeared the administration was trying to slash spending across the board and “deliberately embedding red tape into government.” He described the effort as making “sense if you assume that the purpose of DOGE is not to make government work better, but to stop government from working at all.”
I don’t think you understand pinhead. This is exactly why President Trump was reelected to a second, nonconsecutive term. It was to rip the living guts out of the Deep State and burn the remains to the ground. Of course, considering your background, I’m not at all surprised at your comments.
The DOGE website, as of Sunday, displayed total savings through its efforts at $14.7 billion.
A DOGE post on Wednesday reported, “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 reported that at the start of the audit, the government had 4.6 million active credit cards.
I have had a corporate credit card in the past. There were times that I had to use it, usually when I was traveling on company business. I had a limit on what I could spend and, more importantly, what I could spend money on. I also had to file an expense report listing every item I charged with a receipt. This is how the real world works. There was no way I could drop $100K on something with no oversight. (Believe me, there was one case when I actually had to spend that much money and I had to justify it before I even placed the orders)
Frankly, I am fine with closing down 95% of the credit cards currently in use with the United States Government. Yes, there are times when someone needs to use a card, but in general most of these bureaucrats don’t have that reason. For the moron complaining about not being able to just charge $100K on his own? All I can say is, Thank God you are out of Government.
This is why the United States budget is so out of control. It’s things like credit card abuse with no actual oversight. I would like to know what the largest charge made on one of these cards was and what it was for. Thank you Elon Musk for getting this ball rolling. We might yet be able to keep the United States from complete collapse thanks to President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE.
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