Elon Musk, who heads up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was invited by President Donald Trump to speak first at the most recent Cabinet meeting to discuss DOGE's progress and goals.

According to Fox News, Musk touched on the subject of the controversial emails that were sent to government employees imploring them to reply with five things they did last week. 

The emails were met with some resistance even within Trump's Cabinet. However, Musk clarified why he sent the emails and what it means for the U.S. government moving forward, issuing a stark warning in the process.

Musk also said that his team is essentially a government IT help desk, as most of the systems across multiple government agencies are old, which have obviously led to massive mistakes regarding money and contracts.

What did he say?

Musk first addressed the room regarding the old computer systems while calling himself "a humble tech support hero."

"I actually just call myself a humble tech support hero," Musk stated.

He added, "As crazy as it sounds, that is almost a literal description of the work of the DOGE team is doing is helping fix the government computer systems," he said, noting the "extremely old" computer systems that exist across government.

He then addressed the controversial productivity email that was sent to all government workers last week. It was noted that over 1 million government workers responded to the email.

Musk described what appeared to be a sort of test, calling it a "pulse check," as he's not convinced that not all of the government employees on the payroll are even alive.

"I think that email was perhaps interpreted as a performance review, but actually it was a pulse check review. Do you have a pulse?" Musk said. "And if you have a pulse and two neurons, you could reply to an email."

"Dead" workers?

Musk stressed that the email test was a simple one -- a test to see who would respond.

"But 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, which is probably why they can't respond," Musk told Trump's Cabinet.

He added, "And some people who are not real people... like they're fictional individuals that are collecting a paycheck… well, somebody is collecting paychecks on a fictional individual, so we're just literally trying to figure out are these people real, are they alive, and can they write email, which I think is a reasonable expectation."

It'll be interesting to see what Musk comes up with next to root out the waste.