The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Tuesday announced that it closed down more than 200,000 government credit cards as part of its ongoing audit of the federal government.
The department previously announced that it was launching a pilot program that partnered with 16 government agencies to review the credit cards and whether they were active. There were initially 4.6 million cards, according to DOGE.
“After 3 weeks, >200,000 cards have been de-activated,” DOGE wrote on X. “Great progress this past week by the [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] and the [U.S. Department of the Interior] … Still more work to do.”
The announcement comes shortly after the department said it found more than 5,500 Small Business Administration (SBA) loans were awarded to children who were 11 years or younger, which equaled $312 million.
“While it is possible to have business arrangements where this is legal, that is highly unlikely for these 5,593 loans, as they all also used an SSN with the incorrect name,” the department said Saturday. “DOGE and the SBA are working together to solve this problem this week.”
The department also reportedly found 3,095 loans were awarded to borrowers over 115 years old who were still marked as alive in the Social Security database.
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.
Reprinted with permission from Just the News – By Misy Severi
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Why do so many employees need a credit card?? And who was monitoring the charges?? So glad someone is finally taking a look at all of the Waste, Fraud, and Theft that has been going on for years.
Go DOGE!!
Gee…how nice would it be to have a credit card that was paid by other people’s money and for which there was no accountability??? Sign me up!
This needed to be done years ago. DOGE keep digging.
For each and every personal/fraudulent use of any of these cards by a person to which the card was given, the amount in question should be withdrawn from said person’s personal bank accounts and a tally of the total of these expenses, across the government, should be allocated for immediate refund to any taxpayer who filed a return in fiscal 2024.
I hope some DOGE employee has written code to quickly evaluate all the purchases made on the cards that WERE being used. I’m guessing some of the laid off employees STILL have government laptops and credit cards. All of this needs to be looked into and people charged is fraud happened!! And we need to go after the fraudulent loans, all of them! Follow the money!
In the Military they tried to force me to get the government credit card but for Travel expenses but I refused. I had my own and I know how to use it. I pay mine off every month so no interest charge ever.
DOGE is getting closer all the time to those children (see dem politicians) and 115 year olds that is why they are all screaming and yelling and pay protesters to deflect from the DOGE news. Only the American citizens are onto them. The dems don’t want to get waste and fraud and abuse spending under control. They profited too much from all this waste, fraud and abuse. DOGE KEEP GOING. You are getting closer all the time to the crimes that have been committed in the name of AID to poor people all over the world. But first a little was taken off the too for our dem leaders.
I know someone who works in Social Security who denies there are any 115 year olds in their Database so I am looking forward to this being proven!
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GREAT! Why do so many employees NEED credit cards, anyway?
This is just incredible! So much fraud and yet some of these criminals still have their jobs within the government and nobody that i know has gone to prison! People involved must go to prison for this, their assets must be sold off to pay taxpayers back and their faces plastered all over the news!