Trump DOGE-related order reins in gov’t travel spending, freezes credit cards, offloads empty office space
February 27, 2025 | Chris Donaldson
President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order that requires federal workers to justify their travel expenses and make them available to the public in another move to increase transparency and cut government waste.
On Wednesday, the nation’s 47th president directed agency heads to work with Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team leads to build a “centralized technological system within the agency to seamlessly record every payment” for contracts and grants with a “brief, written justification for each payment submitted by the agency employee who approved the payment.”
Non-essential travel will also be scrutinized with agency heads and DOGE Team leads instructed to “build a technological system within each agency that centrally records approval for federally funded travel for conferences and other non-essential purposes,” with the information provided to the public when possible.
“Once an agency’s system is in place, the Agency Head shall prohibit agency employees from engaging in federally funded travel for conferences or other non-essential purposes unless the travel-approving official has submitted a brief, written justification for the federally funded travel within such system,” the order reads.
The order, titled “Implementing the president’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ cost efficiency initiative,” also freezes government credit cards for 30 days in a clampdown on out-of-control spending by entitled bureaucrats.
“To the maximum extent permitted by law, all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order,” reads the section of the EO on the credit car freeze which excepts those held by “employees utilizing such credit cards for disaster relief or natural disaster response benefits or operations or other critical services as determined by the Agency Head.”
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