President Trump [Oval Office]: It's seems hard to believe that judges want to try and stop us from looking for corruption, especially when we've found hundreds of millions of dollars worth; much more than that, in just a short period of time. We want to weed out the corruption, and it seems hard to believe that a judge could say we don't want you to do that, so maybe we have to look at the judges, because I think it's a very serious violation.

Musk [Oval Office]: The interest payments alone, on the National Debt, exceed the Defense Department budget, which is shocking…if that just keeps going, we're essentially going to bankrupt the country. It's not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses, it's essential.

Musk: We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have obstensibly, a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow manage to acrew tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position. Which is what happened at USAID. We're just curious as to where it came from. Maybe they're very good at investing, in which case, we should take their investment advice, perhaps. It just seems, mysteriously, they get wealthy. We don't know why. Where does it come from? I think the reality is they're getting wealthy at taxpayer expense. That's the honest truth of it.

President Trump: We're talking about tens of billions of dollars that we've already found, and now a judge, who's an activist judge, wants to try and stop us from doing this. Why? Why would they want to do that?

President Trump: I think there's a lot of kickback here. I see a lot of kickback here.

Musk: There's a lot of kickbacks.

President Trump: Tremendous kickback, because nobody could be so stupid to give out some of these contracts, so he has to get a kickback.

Musk: If you can get a trillion dollars in economic growth, and you cut the budget deficit by a trillion, between now and next year, there is no inflation. There is no inflation in '26.

Musk: A bunch of the fraud rings that are operating in the United States and taking advantage of the federal government, especially in the entitlements programs, are actually foreign fraud rings. They're operating in other countries, and actually exporting money to other countries…and this is big numbers. A hundred to two hundred billion dollars a year.

Musk: There was far to much, of what USAID was doing, was influencing elections in ways that I think were dubious and do not stand to light of day.

President Trump: Many contracts just extend, and they keep extending, and there was nobody there to correct it, and I can't imagine that could be held up by the court. Any court that would say that the president, or his representatives like Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, whatever, doesn't have the right to go over their books and make sure everything's honest; how can you have a country? You can't have anything that way. You can't have a business that way. You can't have a country that way.