His executive order also mandates building a system to track travel and other expenditures.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring all agencies to review grants and contracts for wasteful spending, fraud, and abuse. The order also directed agency leaders to build a payment and contract recording system alongside employees of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Teams of DOGE personnel have been assigned to each agency to develop the system, which will be used to review and justify all expenditures made by employees, including travel expenses and other business transactions.
“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 states.
The president’s executive action also establishes that “all credit cards held by agency employees shall be treated as frozen for 30 days from the date of this order,” except for credit cards being used for purposes such as disaster relief or “critical services,” as determined by agency leaders.
President Trump also ordered the General Services Administration to submit a plan for the management of real property that will outline how to dispose of unnecessary government-owned or leased real property.
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For the president and DOGE personnel as they seek to eliminate government wasteful spending.
- For wisdom for President Trump as he seeks to reduce taxpayer funding going to nonessential items and areas.
Sources: The Hill, The White House
