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."

"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..."

"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."

"The overall goal here with the DOGE team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country, a $2 trillion deficits, the interest rates, just the interest on the national de..."