House Audit Reveals $40B Spent On Federal Credit Cards Each Year On ‘Strip Clubs, Gambling, Marijuana’
An audit by the House Oversight committee has revealed that federal employees spend $40 BILLION each year with federal credit cards on “Adult entertainment, online dating, gambling, weed, pyramid schemes, massage parlors, and timeshares.”
Oversight Chairman James Comer, and Sen. Joni Ernst are demanding sweeping reforms to the federal government’s use of taxpayer funded credit cards after discovering nearly 8,000 questionable defense department credit card transactions (many made on federal holidays) at high risk locations.
Such as at, ATM’s, strip clubs, nightclubs, casinos, bars, weed dispensaries, Super Bowl Sunday, St. Patrick’s Day, the day of UFC 300, Cinco de Mayo and New Year’s Eve. and – perhaps most bizarrely – charges were made to fortune tellers trying to predict America’s next war.
There are 4.6 million active Pentagon charge cards.
In a letter addressed to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro, Ernst and Comer called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch a comprehensive review of all federal charge card programs.
Over the past year. An additional 3,246 transactions happened at bars and nightclubs
