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DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards (www.wired.com)

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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency put a $1 spending limit on most credit cards belonging to employees and contractors of the General Services Administration—a critical agency that manages IT and office buildings for the US government—along with at least three other federal agencies. Similar restrictions are expected to roll out to the entire government workforce soon, according to several sources familiar with the matter.

“Effective immediately, all GSA SmartPay Travel and Purchase Cards issued to GSA employees and contractors are being paused and will not be available for use except in very limited circumstances,” GSA wrote in a memo to staff Thursday morning viewed by WIRED. The memo later stated that for “up to 0.1% of the GSA workforce, requests may be made for certain individual purchase charge card spend thresholds be set above $1. Please provide the rationale for all such deviations on an employee-by-employee basis along with the proposed increased threshold.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The standard "we're going to add red tape around spending in order to improve efficiency" gambit.