By Cullen McCue | Trending Politics
The Department of Government Efficiency announced Wednesday that it had deactivated more than 500,000 government-issued credit cards as part of a rapidly-expanding audit that is expected to result in additional deactivations.
“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 announced in an X post. The department noted that at the start of the audit, there were roughly 4.6 million active credit cards or accounts.When DOGE last provided an update on its credit card audit on March 11, the department had cancelled a little more than 200,000 cards across 16 agencies, representing a massive increase of cancellations in the latest update. “So still more work to do,” the post concluded.