The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) indicated that it is still working to make changes in federal agencies, including cutting government credit card accounts.

DOGE noted that the effort, which had earlier discovered around 4.6 million agency cards, has “expanded to 55 agencies” so far. A previous update from the task force in late May indicated that around 523,000 cards were deactivated.

“We will continue to work agency by agency to identify wasteful IT spend and report back,” the group said.

Established by Trump in January, DOGE is tasked with reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. It was initially led by Musk, a former special government employee and adviser to President Donald Trump, before he left in late May after 130 days.

“I look at them [DOGE] as a resource to help me,” Bisignano said.

Bisignano said he wants to make the SSA a “digital-first organization,” and, later in the interview, signaled that cuts to agency staffing may be needed.

“I think we should get away from focusing on head count to focus on what our objective is, which is to do a great job for the public,” he told the media outlet.

In early June, the alliance between Musk and Trump appeared strained when they traded barbs over the Republican and White House-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Musk called it a “disgusting abomination” days after his government tenure expired, saying it would add to the national deficit over the next decade.

The president and other administration officials say it will shrink the deficit through mandatory savings of approximately $1.7 trillion over the same time frame and other policy changes that would boost the U.S. economy.

n response to Musk’s repeated criticism of the bill, Trump said that he doesn’t believe he’ll have a relationship with the Tesla CEO moving forward. The two then escalated their criticism of one another on social media.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, SSA has charted a new course for the agency that prioritizes enhancing customer service, reducing waste, fraud, and abuse, and optimizing its workforce towards direct public service,” White House spokeswoman Liz Huston told news outlets in a statement about DOGE’s work in SSA.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 6 that DOGE can access SSA records, the decision coming after a federal judge ruled earlier in 2025 that the task force could not do so.

At the same time, the Supreme Court also sided with the Trump administration in a separate DOGE-related case, finding that a lower court order order requiring that DOGE produce records on its efforts was too broad.