Elon Musk says that he believes the US Postal Service and Amtrak need to privatized and that “we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized.”

The backlash against the electric vehicle company has turned violent at times, as its billionaire chief executive parlays his support for President Trump into consequential influence over the federal government.

G.O.P. governors and legislators are parroting the federal Department of Government Efficiency by creating panels at the state level. But the similarities only go so far.

Trump said he was considering merging the Postal Service with the U.S. Commerce Department, a move Democrats said would violate federal law.

It’s “kind of embarrassing” how other countries have “way better passenger rail than we do,” Msuk said during a virtual appearance at a Morgan Stanley tech conference.