The Ministry of Defense According to new memos, civil employees have effectively gestures of travel or purchases funded by the taxpayer.
The expenditure limit for travel and purchase cards issued by the government for federal civilian employees was reduced to $ 1, according to the instructions placed on the Defense -Department website.
“DOD Civilian employees must cancel all future non-exempt official travel reservations, and those who currently do not travel exempt to return to their respective permanent service stations as quickly as possible,” explains the memo.
Civil employee travel that supports directly military operations Whether a permanent change in station is exempt, according to one memo.
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The American Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth attends a meeting with the British Minister of Defense John Healey (not shown) in the Pentagon in Washington, DC, March 6, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nishimura/File Photo)
A parallel memo effectively froze civil credit cards that is used to buy everything, from office supplies to items that are priced to $ 10,000.
It came after an executive order of 26 February of President Donald Trump This activated the cost -saving efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) to make ‘government employees responsible to the public’. The provisions that agencies should submit reports to justify travel needs for government employees.
“As soon as the system of an agency is present, the head of the agency does not prohibit the employees of the agency to do federally financed journeys for conferences or other non-essential purposes, unless the officer approved by the Reis has submitted a short, written justification for the judgment that was funded by the order.
The Pentagon has the largest budget budget at $ 840 billion. (Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty images)
It also revealed that Bureau’s credit cards were frozen for 30 days, in addition to the use of funds for “disaster relief or natural disaster response or activities or other critical services as determined by the head of the agencies.”
The restrictions come when the Pentagon relieves 5,400 civilian employees, still in their probationary period and the establishment of recruitment freezing to reduce 5-8% of the 764,000 members of the civilian workforce.
The Pentagon, in coordination with Doge,, according to chief spokesperson Sean Parnell, identified an initial $ 80 million in wasteful expenditure. Most funds were related to dei and climate initiatives.
It is a small group of $ 840 billion budget from the agency, but DOGE’s efforts have just begun in recent weeks. Last week, the Pentagon started an evaluation of its contract practices and demanded that agencies built a central system for contracts, subsidies and other expenses.
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“My employees and I are currently carrying out this assessment to determine where we can achieve efficiency to save the money from the American taxpayers and at the same time carry out contracting activities to support the defense of our nation,” wrote John Tenaglia, the most important director of the Pentagon of Defense Prizes, contract and acquisition policy last week.
“According to the EO, components are instructed to refrain from issuing a new contracting worker appointment to Dod Civilian employees until March 28, 2025, the duration of the assessment period.”
