Elon Musk actually said...

"What we are trying to get to the bottom of is we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead."

"There are fictional individuals collecting paychecks."

"We won’t be perfect."

"We think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, which is probably why they can't respond. And some people who are not real people, like, they literally fictional individu..."