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."

"There are fictional individuals collecting paychecks."

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

"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..."