“Even though we’ve requested data and insight, it was hidden. How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming, right? They weren’t transparent. That’s the problem—that’s the deep state we talk about… But Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies. He has created algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. As he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie.”— Speaker Mike Johnson, quoted by RealClearPolitics.