Neither Musk nor Trump care whether what they say is true. They don't care about rooting out fraud or saving taxpayer money.
The administration is just “flooding the zone,” knowing that the people cannot keep up.
"Welcome to how efficiently liars weaponize statistics: inventing numbers to justify destruction while hiding the real goal of dismantling oversight of their own empires. Nothing exposes corruption quite like billionaires using fake math to eliminate the agencies meant to watch them." Ms. Misanthrope
https://newrepublic.com/article/191667/trump-musk-numbers-statistics-debunked-real-agenda