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SHOCKING: DOGE Uncovers Over 4 Million
Government Credit Cards Linked to 90 Million
Unique Transactions

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Posted By: Imright, 2/19/2025 9:09:50 PM

In a bombshell revelation, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has exposed a shocking level of federal spending abuse, revealing that the U.S. government has over 4.6 million active credit cards in circulation, processing a staggering 90 million transactions worth nearly $40 billion in Fiscal Year 2024 alone. DOGE, the new federal watchdog agency established under President Donald Trump, posted its findings on X on Tuesday, accompanied by a breakdown of federal agency expenditures. “The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend in FY24. DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs –

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Reply 1 - Posted by: sunnyday 2/19/2025 9:19:59 PM (No. 1899834)
Are we the people going to be able to see the line items of each charge card account?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Northcross 2/19/2025 9:20:32 PM (No. 1899835)
That so far is not proof of any fraud. You would have to look at the individual purchases to determine any fraud. Let's replace the DOGE grandstanding with actual prosecutions of the bad actors in government.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: sunnyday 2/19/2025 9:20:43 PM (No. 1899836)
And the users names?
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bamboozle 2/19/2025 9:52:41 PM (No. 1899853)
Not proof of any fraud as long as the purchases were properly documented. That's the way travel and small purchases have been made for many years. I
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Reply 5 - Posted by: VAPMAN 2/19/2025 10:20:47 PM (No. 1899865)
Why do government employees need government credit cards? Can’t they use their own card and then turn in a valid voucher to the government for reimbursement if it was a legitimate bill that the government should cover. I would like to know how often the government was late in paying the credit card bills and how much interest was paid.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: anniebc 2/19/2025 11:02:42 PM (No. 1899880)
Based on recent discoveries of waste, fraud, and abuse, it's safe to assume that government credit cards for abused and misused. On purpose. They have long past the benefit of the doubt. Poster #5 asks the right questions. My company gave up company credit cards a long time ago. You're less likely to attempt to steal when you have to use your own credit/money, etc. and go through the reimbursement process.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Catherine 2/20/2025 12:49:35 AM (No. 1899902)
Now I see what Musk has been doing. Keep up the good work, sir. And for the record, I did the bookkeeping for a government agency. When someone traveled, they all requested advance money. I'd fill out the paperwork and they would bring their receipts when they returned and I'd balance it out. Only one guy failed to return receipts and advance cash. I left that job before this was handled so I don't know if he'd ever repaid.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: JimBob 2/20/2025 1:22:45 AM (No. 1899907)
I had a Government credit card. I was a mechanical engineer designing and building prototype river water level and flow measuring equipment, water samplers, and all the associated equipment for the US Geological Survey stream-gagers. Our job was to keep track of the Nation's water supply, and I worked to get the guys the tools they needed. Good tools at a reasonable cost. Early in my career, before we were issued credit cards, if I needed a piece of plastic stock, or metal, or a handful of screws, I had to go through the 'procurement process'.... it took months to get the smallest, simplest item, and getting anything done was nearly impossible. With a credit card, if I needed a handful of screws, I could go buy them. If I needed a piece of plastic or a piece of aluminum, or a drill bit, I could just call around, get 3 prices, then go buy it. I had a purchase limit of $2,000. I rarely made a purchase more than $100. I was Keenly Aware that every dollar I spent was extracted from some working guy under threat by the IRS of going to jail. I spent that money as if it was coming out of MY pocket! Also, at the end of the monthly billing period I was required to balance 'my books' to the penny, and I was happy to do it. If anyone wanted to see what I bought, I was happy to show them, and show them the equipment that I built with the materials, parts, and tools that I bought. Now, that's my experience. Somewhere else, in a different agency, it might have been a completely different story. But as for me, and the very small group that I worked in, having a credit card saved a huge amount of TIME..... and Time is Money! It was THE single change that resulted in the largest Increase in Efficiency of the entire 33 years that I worked there.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mifla 2/20/2025 5:56:53 AM (No. 1899952)
Government credit cards should be limited to those employees who need them to perform their job.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Laotzu 2/20/2025 8:17:52 AM (No. 1900067)
In the last 20 years the federal government moved to government issued credit cards for travel reimbursement for government employees. My personal impression is that just as much time and money is wasted on card administration and employee "education" as was spent processing travel claims in the past. I've never understood the change and have always suspected somebody was making some serious money on the program.
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