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From Fox News: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has uncovered that the U.S. government currently has more than 4 million active credit cards on its books.
“The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for ~$40B of spend[ing] in FY24,” DOGE said in a post on X on Tuesday.
Attached to the post was a breakdown of multiple federal agencies and their credit card use, with the Department of Defense leading the way in both the number of transactions (about 27.2 million), and number of individual accounts (roughly 2.4 million).
“DOGE is working w/ the agencies to simplify the program and reduce admin costs – we will report back in 1 week,” the DOGE team announced.
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 – we will report back in 1 week.https://t.co/Umuc0GLsvW pic.twitter.com/pikYyPIdHP
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 19, 2025
According to a PEW Research report in January, there are approximately 3 million federal employees, plus roughly 1.3 million active-duty military personnel.
NEW from @pewresearch: What the data says about federal workers
This comprehensive backgrounder for the “DOGE” era answers key questions, including: How many federal workers are there? How has that number changed? Where do they work? What do they earn?https://t.co/fxOLtoml5t pic.twitter.com/qn2VD8LkX9
— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) January 7, 2025
DOGE uncovers over 4M government credit cards responsible for 90M transactions https://t.co/xDLS3YKyPm
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 20, 2025
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