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."

"We won’t be perfect."

"There are fictional individuals collecting paychecks."

"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..."