Common Dreams: “This is their end goal: the privatization of as much of the U.S. government as possible, enriching the rich and leaving everyone else worse off,” warned one progressive.

Elon Musk sparked calls Thursday to fight what one union called an “illegal power grab” after the senior adviser to President Donald Trump and de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency said that the United States Postal Service and Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, should be privatized.

“I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk—who is advising Trump on how to eviscerate federal agencies—said while appearing remotely at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. “I think we should privatize the post office and Amtrak for example… We should privatize everything we possibly can.”

“Basically, something’s got to have some chance of going bankrupt, or there’s not a good feedback loop for improvement,” he opined.

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