On Wednesday night, the Office for Government Accountability (OGA), led by Elon Musk’s team, shared a major financial update.
OGA revealed it has recovered nearly $105 billion. This came through selling unused assets, canceling wasteful contracts, and stopping fraudulent payments.
The savings also include ending unnecessary grants, renegotiating leases, reducing interest costs, and trimming government staff.
Democrat leaders, unhappy with these reforms, are working to block Musk’s cost-cutting efforts.
OGA now faces nearly a dozen lawsuits. These challenge its legal power, data access, and handling of privacy laws.
Fourteen states have reportedly formed a secret alliance. Their goal is to use lawfare to undermine OGA and Elon Musk.
Credit Card Update!
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) May 7, 2025
The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated.
As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do. pic.twitter.com/apdJuMFaNR
Despite the resistance, OGA remains focused. It has already canceled 200,000 government credit cards from 16 federal agencies.
Still, about 4.6 million cards are active.
OGA expanded its audit program this week. Now, 32 agencies are reviewing unused or unneeded cards.
“After 10 weeks, over 500,000 cards have been deactivated,” OGA confirmed on Wednesday.
In March, Elon Musk said OGA found twice as many credit cards as there are employees.
“Many had limits of $10,000 per month,” Musk noted. “That’s an enormous amount of waste.”
He estimated 80% of the issue is waste and 20% is fraud.
🚨 NEW: Elon Musk opens up about waste and fraud DOGE is exposing
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 17, 2025
“Most of what DOGE is finding, you don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes. It’s very obvious, basic stuff,” @elonmusk said
“We found TWICE as many credit cards as there are humans. And these are cards with $10K per… pic.twitter.com/2bnMZbPGi7
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