Have you considered that DOGE is an opaque, unaccountable bureaucracy that is motivated to optimize for ragebait? Who don't seem to know the consequences of their actions, or have any skin in the game if they make mistakes? Who have been given alarmingly high level of control over some of the most sensitive pieces of information and governance of our government, and never made any effort to assure the public that they aren't acting carelessly? And for some of these services they have basically left broken, there is an obvious conflict of interest when Musk suggests that the government buys replacement services from him?

You're asking the people to act in good faith but it doesn't seem like DOGE either understands or cares that there are a lot of people who have basically had their contributions and service to the country basically shattered overnight, because Elon wants to get x amount of likes from a certain culture war faction.

You don't seem to get that the money is spent when Congress allocates it, not when a public servant puts it on a credit card. You want accountability talk to your representative.

This will just make government less efficient as it goes through extra steps to request invoices and post payment, or perhaps even spending petty cash.

It will exclude government from buying certain products where this isn't possible.

Of course this is all quite irrelevant, since it's a publicity stunt for the people who are not interested in saving taxpayer money but hating and destroying.

> Taxpayers, however, require accountability for the taxes they pay in a functioning democratic republic.

Accountability to taxpayers is a really weird excuse for bypassing Congress on changes in whether and how money Congress has directed with law is actually spent.

And by “weird” I mean really “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”-level abuse of language.

This is just adding to the bureaucracy, instead of approving all purchases on the card at once now they have to get approval for each and every purchase.

as a taxpayer, id like the costs of each of these broad actions to be analyzed add shared for public review before doing them.

>Taxpayers, however, require accountability

What do you think is unaccounted for? Especially on an electronic credit card?

How the fuck does kneecapping the ability of government employees to purchase things on a credit card increase accountability? Either they’re monitoring purchases or they aren’t, it isn’t any more difficult to do so with a credit card.

Like, you do understand that all purchases on a CC are inherently digital and thus logged by default?

huh? what idea are you trying to convey?