It may come as little surprise that President Donald Trump’s administration is benefitting the wealthy. Trump’s plan to fund $5 trillion in tax cuts for corporations and the uber-rich relies on cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in services for working people, including Medicaid.

But just how billionaires and corporate oligarchs stand to benefit from Trump’s policies — namely his deportation and surveillance regime — is outlined in detail in a new report from the Center for Popular Democracy Action, the campaign arm of the nonprofit advocacy group.

The usual characters won’t shock anyone: major Trump campaign donors like Elon Musk (whose recent rift with Trump may not last), Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, or Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. Trump wants to deregulate sectors from artificial intelligence to the environment and labor, and cut corporate taxes for Bezos and other billionaires. But other corporate executives are already quietly enriching themselves on Trump’s policies.

“Trump’s ‘oligarchs’ are billionaires who are attempting to control political decisions in order to increase their wealth,” the report said.

Take private prison executive........

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