DOGE’s $1 Spending Limit Is a Bureaucratic Nightmare That Wastes Time and Money
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DOGE v. Federal Employees
🔴 UPDATE: March 7, 2025
DOGE’s $1 Spending Limit Wastes Time, Loses Money, and Undermines ‘Efficiency’
In what can only be described as manufactured chaos, DOGE has imposed a $1 spending limit on government-issued credit cards, throwing federal agencies into disarray. Essential purchases—previously handled in seconds—now require employees to pay out-of-pocket, submit expense reports, and wait for approval, creating more bureaucracy, not less. Worse, this restriction could actually cost taxpayers money, contradicting DOGE’s supposed mission of “efficiency.”
Key Developments:
Time-Wasting Bureaucracy Masquerading as ‘Efficiency’
Government purchases that could be made instantly with a federal card now require reimbursement paperwork, creating hours of extra administrative work for both employees and finance offices.
If the exact same amount of money is being spent, but with more steps and more inefficiency, what has actually been saved?
The Government Is Losing Money on This Policy
Many government-issued cards provide cashback rewards, saving taxpayer dollars on official purchases. Now, employees forced to use personal credit cards will collect the cashback instead, creating a net financial loss for the government.
If the federal government ends up spending the same amount but forfeits potential cashback, this isn’t a cost-cutting measure—it’s just bad accounting.
A ‘Miserable Bureaucracy’—By Design
This policy doesn’t serve the government’s bottom line—it serves Russell Vought’s vision of making federal employment unbearable.
Vought, Trump’s former budget director and the architect of DOGE’s policies, has openly stated that his goal isn’t efficiency but dismantling the civil service.
Instead of making government work better, this policy functions as sabotage—forcing employees into constant frustration, inefficiency, and extra work, all in the name of ‘efficiency’.
🔍 Why This Matters:
This Isn’t About Saving Money—It’s About Wasting Time: Federal workers are now spending hours navigating red tape for routine purchases, adding pointless inefficiencies while accomplishing nothing.
It’s Actually Hurting the Budget: Lost cashback from unusable government cards means that this policy could cost taxpayers more money, not less.
DOGE’s True Goal? Make Government Work Impossible: Instead of optimizing operations, this move aligns perfectly with Russell Vought’s stated goal of making the federal workforce’s job as miserable as possible.
🚨 The Bottom Line:
This isn’t about efficiency—it’s about attrition. DOGE’s $1 spending limit has nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with creating pointless roadblocks that make government jobs more difficult, less rewarding, and more frustrating. This is deliberate sabotage, dressed up as cost-cutting.
📌 Sources:
WIRED: DOGE’s $1 Federal Spending Limit Is Straight Out of the Twitter Playbook
Newsweek: DOGE Shuts Down 146,000 Government Credit Cards in 2 Weeks
Yahoo News: Elon Musk’s DOGE slapped a $1 limit on government credit cards and now workers say they can’t do their jobs
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