Elon Musk actually said...

"If the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy."

"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."

"One of the biggest functions of the DOGE team is just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out."

"There are fictional individuals collecting paychecks."