Much of the federal government is shuttered, but that’s not preventing the Trump administration from finding new ways to screw over struggling Americans.

Last week, the Trump FCC under Brendan Carr voted to indefinitely suspend efforts to impose new, lower price caps on predatory U.S. prison monopolies that would have prevented them from over-billing inmate families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually. The reforms, which literally took decades of activism and work to pass, were quickly sidelined via a 2-1 vote by the Republican FCC majority.

For decades, journalists and researchers have outlined how a select number of prison telecom giants like Securus have enjoyed a cozy, government-coddled monopoly over prison phone services, resulting sky high rates (at times upwards of $14 per minute at some prisons) for inmate families. States often get kickbacks based on the rates, which has stifled efforts at reforms.

These pampered monopolies have shifted over to monopolizing prison phone videoconferencing. And the relationship between government and monopoly is so cozy, several of these companies, like Securus, have been caught helping to spy on privileged attorney client communications. FCC officials, like former Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai (who also worked to undercut these reforms), previously worked for Securus.