Michael Steele: “They had this deep-seated terror about modern -- modernity and change.”

He is the most important person in that room, and that includes the President of the United States.

You don't hear members of Congress standing up rebuking Elon Musk, which would be easy to do because he's an unelected individual who is, you know, taking a chainsaw to the federal government.

I mean, come on, guys. I don’t know what people expect here.

You're expendable because you're a federal employee. And when they want to cleave 2 million federal employees from the rolls, where do you think that's going to come from?