re: DOGE: FedGov has ~3M employees, ~4.6M credit cards/accounts

Most employees with have a travel card and some will have purchase cards. This doesn't surprise me.

Add in all the WFH and why would they need a CC

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You want to lock people up for accumulating sky miles? Some of yall to need to calm the frick down.

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It's called theft so yeah we should prosecute that.

You believe that benifits accrued from tax dollars should be diverted to enrich bureaucrats instead of using it for official business expenses?

There are cards issued to agencies for purchases such as office supplies and the like.

But there should be no need for 1.6M agency cards.

Also, not every employee needs a credit card. Those who travel, that's one thing. But the office admin who never goes anywhere wouldn't need one.

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Most if not all employees get a travel card used specific for traveling and another for other purchases (pcards), but those don't get handed out all willy nilly.


So 1.5 card average makes sense

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I think yall might be confused with what a private company does

And what the federal government does

A private company can do whatever they want

Right, wrong or indifferent

I used my own credit card and filed an expense account monthly


Explain why all these federal employees need so many expenses

When they don’t even leave their homes???

WTF are they procuring???

Shut down all of the cards. Period

I have worked private and public sector jobs requiring a lot of travel. From prior experience with the travel cards, they are issued in the employees name and the employee is personally liable to pay the monthly bill. It’s not like you swipe it for whatever you want and the government pays the balance. Before traveling you have to submit a prior authorization form estimating your expenses like hotel and flight costs. The employee signs it, the designated travel official reviews and signs, then the employee’s supervisor signs. Anything out of policy like a hotel not within allowed rates or not taking the most cost effective flight gets rejected. Then when you return from travel you file all your receipts accounting for every penny you are requesting a voucher for, it gets the same round of reviews and signatures, then a voucher is issued to the employee to use to pay the credit card.

Even if an employee used the travel card illegally to purchase non-approved expenses, they would owe the balance, not the government, and it is cause for firing. It is a more scrutinized system than practically any private sector travel management process.

Ironically you will find vastly higher rates of fraud with private companies and individuals improperly using money they obtain from the federal government than with federal employees improperly using federal funds. It is an extremely scrutinized process with a lot of controls in place. Some certainly find a way but they usually get caught.

GSA leases come with gas cards.

Years ago when we traveled on DoD temp duty (TDY) we paid our own expenses and filed travel vouchers for reimbursement later.

Several yrs before I retired they made us get gov't credit cards and you had to use those when possible.

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what happens to all those reward points

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Goes to the government via whatever contract they have with the credit card servicer. Most are through US Bank.