Why wouldn’t the agencies use credit cards?
As a bureaucrat in the Department of Defense, I was required to use an official credit card for travel expenses.
The credit card made it easy for the people checking the expenses to know what was spent for what. The government got a better deal on fees than what I could get as an individual.
Ask Vegas how government credit cards are used.
So, people have a credit card and used it on average 20 times? We should burn down the country over this?
I would hope the cards are used and provide a good paper trail.
The fact of 90 million transactions tells us nothing by itself but gives gateway pundit something to sprinkle with clickbait drama.
Same. Each local and county gency I worked for issued credit cards to Department Heads and supervisors. Line staff were assigned a card when travel was required but it was turned in with the receipts upon their return.
The one Department that always had the most abuse was the PD or Sheriff’s Department.
I believe there are approx 2 million fed employees. So why are 4.6 million cards needed? For contractors, let their companies issue cards.
I bet the Frequent Flyer Miles would pay for a trip to Jupiter.................
“Why wouldn’t the agencies use credit cards?”
4,600,000 of them?
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I worked at DOJ and later DHS. We had three types of cards. Travel cards, vehicle fleet cards (for gas and repairs) and procurement cards for equipment and supplies.
All these cards/accounts had to be reconciled at the end of each month. This is simple accounting stuff.
Very few people were issued procurement cards. You had to sit through two weeks of training.