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Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies
The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.
A researcher at the National Institutes of Health who tests new vaccines and treatments in rodents says he has had to put experiments on hold; his lab is not able to get certain necessary materials, such as antibodies, which are needed to assess immune response. That employee works in the Pacific West Region, which manages federal land in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, as well as parks in Arizona, Montana, Guam and American Samoa. “With the Twitter pausing of payments, at some point we were in a meeting at 1am on a Saturday, and it was like, ‘Hey, let's turn the credit cards off to see what bounces, and what happens,’" explained angel investor Jason Calacanis on the All In podcast in February.
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