Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
From sugar and steel consumers to students who already paid off their loans or used their savings to pay for their education, political capitalism punishes those who aren’t elite or can’t organize to extract favors from politicians. Sadly, it gives a bad name to both politics and capitalism.
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/american-capitalism-is-crony-at-its-core/