AND Ministry of Defense They have effectively banned civilian employees to travel or perform taxpayers’ purchases, according to a new memorandum.
Consumption limit to government travel cards for traveling and buying federal civilian employees has been reduced to $ 1, as directed on the instructions published Defense Department website.
“Dod civilian employees have to cancel all future official reservations of travel, and those currently on silent trips must return to their permanent cells as soon as possible,” the memory said.
Travel to civilian employees who directly support military operation or is to exclude a constant change in the station, according to one letter.
US Defense Minister Peta Hegseth attends a meeting with British Defense Minister John Healey (not in the picture) in Pentagon in Washington, DC, March 6, 2025. (Reuters/Kent Nishimura/File Photo)
Parallel memorandum effectively frozen civilian credit cards used to buy anything, from office materials to items up to $ 10,000.
Came after an executive order of February 26 President Donald Trump This activated efforts to save the costs of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge) to “make government employees responsible for the public”. He prescribes that agencies will have to submit reports to justify travel needs to government employees.
“Once the agency’s system is established, the head of the agency prohibits the agency employees to deal with federal travel for conferences or other irrelevant purposes, unless the travel officer approved briefly, the justification for traveling with the Federal Financing in such a system,” the order said.
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Pentagon has the largest agency budget of $ 840 billion. (Tom Brenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He also urged to freeze the Credit Card of Agency for 30 days, except for the use of “assistance in disasters or the natural advantage of disasters on disasters or surgery or other critical services as determined by the agency’s head”.
Restrictions come because the Pentagon shoots in 5,400 civilian employees who have still established employment freezing in the trial period to reduce 5-8% of civilian power of 764,000 members.
Pentagon has identified the initial 80 million dollars of wasteful consumption in coordination with Doge, said the main spokesman Sean Parnell. Most of the funds were related to Dei and climatic initiatives.
It is a small part of the $ 840 billion agency’s budget, but the docks of the reach have just begun in recent weeks. Pentagon launched an overview of his contractual practices last week and asked for agencies to build a central system for contracts, supports and other expenditures.
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“My staff and I are currently conducting this review to determine where we can achieve efficiency in order to save US taxpayers’ money during the performance of contractual operations in support of our country’s defense,” wrote John Tenaglia, Chief Director of Pentagon for Defense Prices, Contracting and Policy, in a letter.
“According to the EO, the components were instructed to give up the issuance of new contractual servants for the appointment of the appointment of civilian staff members to March 28, 2025, the duration of the audit period.”
