Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies

Impacts also hit national park services. An employee was ready to travel to the maintenance of road maintenance at a National Memorial as this change was implemented on February 20. I can’t give fuel for my hotel, my rent car, car. Now I cannot run the mission, “the employee said.” Today, instead of concentrating on other tasks, I am focusing on three different emergency situations on how I can handle it. Do I go? Do I call my engineering team and tell them to retrieve them?

A memo of the workers in the National Park Service mentions that “all travel that is not related to national security, public safety, or immigration, it should be canceled on Wednesday, February 21, 2021.” A long -term decision about the travel policy, it said, “on the next date” will come. Some NPS workers were able to travel in February even though they did not get government exemptions. They have now been told that no travel will be allowed in March. To today, according to a source familiar with the situation, about 75 trip has been canceled or re -determined.

The National Udyan Service did not respond to any request to comment on the wired.

Some government employees have said that they were given a precaution before the announcement of February 21st. “There is a general recognition that issues are breaking down.”

The employees worked in the Pacific Western region, which operates federal land in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada, as well as parks in Arizona, Montana, Guam and American Samoa. Although the GSA has given Clamp-Down the chance of an exception, the employee has claimed that there are only four purchased cards with the expenditure limit over $ 1 for the entire region.

Some of these parks pay for services like Internet and Wireless on the purchase cards – workers are wondering if their work devices can be cut soon. “Someone must issue a job order before fixing the bathroom,” the current employee explained. “This happens electronically. Like any business we also rely on emails, teams and chats to complete things ”

The limit of expenditure reflects the faith of the musk in the zero-based budget. After he purchased Twitter, he cut the budget to zero and forced the employees to justify each expenses. He also frozen the People’s Corporate Credit Card.

“At one point we were at a meeting on Saturday at a meeting with Twitter paying, and it was like, ‘Hey, let’s stop to see what we bounce the credit cards, and what happens,” explained to Jason Calacanis “Angel Investor All Podcast in February. (Calacanis was part of the mask’s transition team on Twitter.) “And of course, we have started to get a call … the people who first come, are probably the biggest grift.”

Employees see it differently. The current NPS worker has complained, “There is a lot of control to ensure that fraud is not happening.” “I truly believe that the only fraud is occurring by musk that is happening, [Russell] Corn, and [Donald] Trump. “

Kate Naibes and Aryan Marshall contributed to this report.