Elon Musk

Well, we actually are trying to be as transparent as possible.

The people voted for major government reform, and that's what the people are going to get.

If people don't have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words.

We've got a $2 trillion deficit and if this, if we don't do something about this deficit, the country is going bankrupt.

You can see whether I'm doing something that's benefitting one of my companies or not. It's totally obvious.

Imagine going down the grocery aisle and the prices from one year to the next are the same, and their mortgage and all their debt payments dropped.

We can cut the budget deficit in half from $2 trillion to $1 trillion and with deregulation, because there are a lot of regulations that don't serve the public good.

We've got a $2 trillion deficit, and if we don't do something about it, the country is going bankrupt.

The goal of DOGE is to be as transparent as possible.

We have this unelected, unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, that in a lot of ways currently has more power than any elected representative.

It's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop, fix that feedback loop, and ensure that the public's elected representatives—the president, the House, and the Senate—decide what happens, as opposed to a large, unelected…

At a high level, you say what is the goal of DOGE, and I think a significant part of the presidency is to restore democracy.

Transparency is what builds trust.

There need to be a lot of people working for the federal government, but not as many as currently. The people voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get.

If you have rule of the bureaucrat, if the bureaucracy is in charge then what meaning does democracy actually have.

You couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from the public.

We're just curious as to where it came from.

The people voted for major government reform.

If Trump wins, that Epstein client list is gonna become public.

There are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth.

If you see any contract where the where it was awarded to SpaceX and it wasn’t by far the best value for money for the taxpayer, let me know, because every one of them was.

Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.

We believe USAID should be eliminated entirely.

At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!! This is utterly insane and must be addressed…