News Releases

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH APPLAUD $185 MILLION IN TAX CREDITS TO PROMOTE JOBS IN DISTRESSED COMMUNITIES

Four Miss. Institutions Guaranteed New Market Tax Credit Program Resources

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), members of the Senate Community Development Finance Caucus, today applauded the award of $185 million in New Market Tax Credits (NMTC) to four Mississippi-based institutions that will use it as leverage to support economic growth in...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH PRAISE $2.4 BILLION AWARD TO BUILD LHA 9 AT INGALLS

Miss. Shipbuilders Will Build Large Deck Amphibious Assault Ship Critical for Future of Fleet

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised the award of a $2.4 billion contract modification from the Department of the Navy to Ingalls Shipbuilding to construct LHA 9, a large-deck America-class amphibious assault ship.

“This is excellent news for both the fine...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH PRAISE $6.1 MILLION INVESTMENT IN LOWNDES CO. PORT INFRASTRUCTURE

Miss. Senators Welcome Improvement for Columbus-based Internal Waterway 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today celebrated a $6.1 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant to improve infrastructure and expand capacity at the Lowndes County Port in Columbus.

The grant was issued by the Maritime Administration through the Port Infrastructure...

WICKER & HYDE-SMITH WELCOME $10.8 MILLION AWARD FOR GOLDEN MANUFACTURING

Department of Defense Continues Contract Work with North Miss. Small Business

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today praised a $10.8 million contract award to Golden Manufacturing Co., Inc. in Tishomingo County to produce trousers for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy.

The contract represents the continuation of Department of Defense contracts dating from 2019 for the...

MISS. SENATORS REPORT $4.5 MILLION IN COPS GRANTS FOR MISS.

Justice Dept. Awards Include $3.0 Million for School Violence Prevention in Seven Districts 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today reported the award of $4.5 million to Mississippi through the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program.

Seven school districts in Mississippi will share $3.0 million in School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) grant...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES OPPOSE ILLEGAL VA-PROVIDED ABORTIONS 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) have joined 11 other Republican senators and 26 members of the House of Representatives in a public comment letter expressing strong opposition to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) interim final rule (IFR) that illegally allows abortions to be offered by the VA. 
 
The lawmakers cite the VA’s explicit statutory prohibition on abortion...

HYDE-SMITH, COLLEAGUES URGE FTC TO COMPLETE INVESTIGATION OF PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGERS  

Lawmakers Seek Commitment to Finish Probe into Schemes Linked to High Prescription Drug Costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is part of a bipartisan effort to ensure the Federal Trade Commission completes an investigation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) for potential market manipulation tactics and other anticompetitive practices that increase the cost of prescription drugs...

AHEAD OF HALLOWEEN, HYDE-SMITH & COLLEAGUES ISSUE PSAs ON DANGERS OF RAINBOW FENTANYL 

  
PSA:  Senator Hyde-Smith Warns Parents of Trick-or-Treaters about Rainbow Fentanyl Pills.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is among a dozen Senators who today released pre-Halloween Public Service Announcements (PSAs) warning parents about the rainbow fentanyl pills now being used by drug cartels to target American youths.

Rainbow fentanyl is being distributed in a variety of...

HYDE-SMITH CONGRATULATES MEADVILLE TEACHER ON WINNING NATIONAL AWARD 

Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Honors Kristie Jones of the Franklin County Career and Technical Center

PHOTO:  Senator Hyde-Smith with Skilled Trades Instructor Kristie Jones and Wicker staffer Brad Ferguson.

MEADVILLE, Miss. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today joined students and school administrators in congratulating Kristie Jones, a construction and carpentry teacher at Franklin County Career and Technical...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH CONDEMN BANK’S ATTEMPT TO UNDERMINE SECOND AMENDMENT

Senators Say Amalgamated Bank Is “Weaponizing the Financial System to Enact Far-Left Political Goals”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) have joined 24 colleagues on a letter to Amalgamated Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Priscilla Sims Brown, criticizing the institution’s work to force U.S. financial services firms to categorize gun purchases. 

The Senators...