I believe Elon was saying 90 percent of government employees are not showing up at offices weekly now. Is it possible, that many of these employees do not even exist, and their paycheck is all just going to enrich a handful of insiders?
Thus, demanding that everyone shows up to work would be a means of calling them out on their fraud.
That's not a stupid thought fren. They don't even know how many agencies there are. I'd say it's pretty likely there are people getting checks that we don't even know about.
Or people collecting from multiple departments.