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Magazines and news media will suffer most. SaaS / B2B contracts larger than a certain amount won't be on employee credit cards.

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> larger than a certain amount

Larger than $1 is in this case zero, there's nothing one can buy for $1 on a credit card. I'm not sure why they chose this amount and didn't just set it to 0. Not sure when this is coming but soon government employees will need to bring their own paper and other needed officeware from home, unless they'll have to bring toilet paper and soap as well if the cut is too deep. At the same time the billionaire class has nearly doubled their wealth and nobody is batting an eye for it. Strange times we're living indeed.

Afaict, they're doing everything the easy way. I wouldn't be surprised if the CC bank doesn't allow a $0 option, but DOGE doesn't want to actually administratively cancel all cards, either, so they're left with this.

Government workers were already making do with a lot less than is generally accepted in the private sector, especially after the GSA conference scandal of somewhat over a decade ago.[1] During my time as a federal employee, many government offices had no soap at the kitchenettes, and some had no coffee. Folks tended to bring in their own drip-coffee pots for the office.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/04/03/14993...

It's an interesting arch.. I was not aware it got this bad. This is breaking the norm of hygiene, come on, soap and toilet paper was only missing in the third world or communist Easter block or Russia.

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