DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards

Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:23PM (#43121098)

If my experience in non-federal government is any guide, they have similar requirements when they use the card, the difference is that it is after the fact and if the application gets rejected, the payment is the employee’s responsibility. The amount of red tape is the same either way, but with the caed the red tape happens after the purchase.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by michaelt on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:43PM (#43121361)

With the card, the urgent next-day-delivery order is already on its way while the red tape waits for approval. And the worker enters the order into the supplier's website directly.

With a standard order, the urgent order is entered into Oracle Financials, waiting for approval, and some time during office hours in the next 1-2 days someone in finance will copy the order into the supplier's website, omitting one order line by accident.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by selectodude on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:32PM (#43121210)

The federal government actually operates in the opposite way. They cosign a credit card under your name, you have to pay it off at the end of every month, and they reimburse you after the fact.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by dragonwriter on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:35PM (#43121247)

That's pretty much the mechanism of acheiving the effect that I was describing on State governments I’ve seen, too. I was just trying to generalize on the level of responsibility, rather than detailed payment flow.

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