New Delhi, April 18 -- The problem of growing credit card debt is not limited to the general public. Even employees of the US federal government face the same issue - at least, that's what DOGE, a government audit body reportedly conceived by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, has confirmed.

Recently, the official social media handle of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posted that its programme to audit unused and unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 30 agencies. It also noted that, after seven weeks, around 470,000 credit cards have been deactivated.

In the same post, DOGE further points out that there were around 4.6 million active cards and accounts at the start of the audit; therefore, there is still more work to do...