"We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we’ll fix it very quickly."
"So, for example, with [the U.S. Agency for International Development], one of the things we accidentally canceled, very briefly, was [funding for] Ebola prevention."
"This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy!"
"(W)e’re literally trying to figure out, are these people real, are they alive and can they write an email?"
"Some of the things I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody’s going to bat a thousand … We will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes."
"We all make mistakes, but when we make mistakes, we fix it quickly, and in the case of the USAID, we accidentally canceled, very briefly, Ebola, Ebola prevention."
"is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk."
"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."
"Bravo, @JeffBezos!"
"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."