"DOGE is a support function for the president and for the agencies and departments, to help achieve those savings and to effectively find 15% in reduction in fraud and waste."
"We won’t be perfect."
"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..."
"And we've got people in there that are 150 years old, now, do you know anyone who has 150? I don't. So, you know, that's a case where, like, I think they're probably dead and there's a whole bunch of ..."
"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..."
"The Verizon system is not working and so is putting air travelers at serious risk."
"Subject to the discretion of the President, they will be given another chance."
"Failure to respond a second time will result in termination."
"The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!"
"I get credible death threats. I'm #2 after Trump for assassination."
"If I make a mistake on security, [our son] will never know his father."
"Only the paranoid survive."