The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) indicated that it is still working to make changes in federal agencies, including cutting government credit card accounts.
A program that was introduced earlier this year has resulted in the cancellation of more than 610,000 unused or unneeded federal credit cards after 14 weeks, DOGE said in a post on social media platform X on June 6.
DOGE noted that the effort, which had earlier discovered around 4.6 million agency cards, has “expanded to 55 agencies” so far. A previous update from the task force in late May indicated that around 523,000 cards were deactivated.
In a separate post on June 8, DOGE said the General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration cut several thousand unused phone plans or subscriptions in the past month.
“We will continue to work agency by agency to identify wasteful IT spend and report back,” the group said.
Meanwhile, Frank Bisignano, head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), said in a Wall Street Journal interview published on June 9 that he plans to continue using DOGE to make changes to his agency after the departure of Elon Musk from the White House.
Established by Trump in January, DOGE is tasked with reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. It was initially led by Musk, a former special government employee and adviser to President Donald Trump, before he left in late May after 130 days.
“I look at them [DOGE] as a resource to help me,” Bisignano said.
Bisignano said he wants to make the SSA a “digital-first organization,” and, later in the interview, signaled that cuts to agency staffing may be needed.
“I think we should get away from focusing on head count to focus on what our objective is, which is to do a great job for the public,” he told the media outlet.
In early June, the alliance between Musk and Trump appeared strained when they traded barbs over the Republican and White House-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Musk called it a “disgusting abomination” days after his government tenure expired, saying it would add to the national deficit over the next decade.
The president and other administration officials say it will shrink the deficit through mandatory savings of approximately $1.7 trillion over the same time frame and other policy changes that would boost the U.S. economy.