As a government employee, I'm pretty jealous. All our spending has to go through a credit card with no perks, rewards, or identifiable appeal, presumably because it makes the data harvesting easier. And you have to identify on the front end whether each thing is a valid expense so you know which card to use, rather than just filing relevant line items in a claim on the back end. The only good thing about the government travel cards is that they're physical objects, so you can sometimes lose them and then get to fall back on a card that does something for you.
As a government employee, I'm pretty jealous. All our spending has to go through a credit card with no perks, rewards, or identifiable appeal, presumably because it makes the data harvesting easier. And you have to identify on the front end whether each thing is a valid expense so you know which card to use, rather than just filing relevant line items in a claim on the back end. The only good thing about the government travel cards is that they're physical objects, so you can sometimes lose them and then get to fall back on a card that does something for you.