And workers and consumers are nowhere to be seen or heard when it comes to the rest of Trump's corporate priorities. The president, for example, is expected to sign a bill passed on a party-line House vote this week that eliminates Obama-era online privacy protections. This is good for Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and other providers who, as The Washington Post's Brian Fung noted, "will be able to monitor their customers' behavior online and, without their permission, use their personal and financial information to sell highly targeted ads." Not exactly empowering to the average American.