The Defense Department effectively barred its civilian employees from using their government-issued travel charge cards, according to a DOD memo. The new spending rules, spelled out in a March 5 ...

Those purchases aren't done in a vacuum, where the employee just says, ‘I need to buy pencils.’ The fraud is very low," said Shauna Weatherly.

The Trump administration has drawn down the spending limit on government-issued travel and purchase cards for federal civilian employees to just one dollar.

(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) The Defense Department effectively barred its civilian employees from using their government-issued travel charge cards, according to a DOD memo. The new spending ...