The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Thursday said that it has canceled another 20,000 or so federal credit cards and will expand its cancellation efforts to more agencies.
“We are now expanding the program to more agencies, as there is much more work to do,” DOGE said in its post on Thursday, noting that it found 4.6 million active credit cards and accounts.
It comes as Trump and Elon Musk, who served as DOGE’s leader, held a joint Oval Office news conference as Musk’s time with the government expires. As a special government employee, Musk has only 130 days before he has to leave. In the order that established DOGE earlier this year, Trump said that it would wrap up its work by July 4, 2026.
At one point, Trump said that Musk is “really not leaving,” and “he’s going to be back and forth, I think.”
Trump also praised Musk for his work in cutting “unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad” waste in the federal government with DOGE, while Musk “didn’t need this,” referring to his work with the government.
Musk’s association with DOGE has been defined by cost-cutting recommendations to reduce contracts and funding and initiate mass layoffs in the federal government. Those decisions have sparked a number of lawsuits against DOGE and various federal agencies, with judges blocking DOGE’s access to some agencies’ systems.
Musk has said he now intends to devote most of his energy to his business empire, including Tesla and SpaceX, after some investors expressed concern that DOGE was occupying too much of his time. Tesla’s revenues and profit declined year-over-year, according to its most recent quarterly earnings report issued in April.
Musk has also said he plans to dial back his political spending, after he spent nearly $300 million backing Trump’s presidential campaign and those of other Republicans in 2024.
Also Friday, Musk indicated that he would continue to serve as Trump’s adviser. He expressed confidence that DOGE would eventually achieve much deeper savings.
“This is not the end of DOGE, but the beginning,” Musk told reporters as Trump gave him a commemorative plaque for his work with the administration.