Antonio Gracias: DOGE Happened Just in Time to Stop America from Turning into a Kleptocracy "When (@DOGE) started, I thought we had a democracy, but it turned into a bureaucracy." "What I'm afraid of now, is we have a bureaucracy that is about to turn into a kleptocracy." @AntonioGracias on E214: "It's sort of extraordinary what's happening. "@elonmusk said this publicly, right? Fraud, waste, and abuse, he thinks kind of 10% of the budget is probably fraud." "I think it might be low, actually. So you're talking about $650B, $1T in waste. I think that's probably about right." "But what's really serious about it, @Jason, for me and what scared me, and I'm not there full-time. You know, I'm in and out a little bit and trying to help where I can, but I'm not there full-time." "When this started, I thought we had a democracy, but it turned into a bureaucracy." "What I'm afraid of now. is we have a bureaucracy that is about to turn into a kleptocracy." "I mean, a Latin American-style kleptocracy, okay?" "The stuff you're talking about, that is pure fraud." "And we're making some jokes out of it, the DEI musical." "But if you go into the data that's coming out of USAID, what you find is there's a lot of political contributions going on there." "I mean, that is pure corruption. That's like a Latin American-style autocracy. And we cannot let it go there." "I think (@DOGE) happened just in the nick of time. 80+ people there, all patriots, going full time to make this happen." "So I'm just so grateful."