Southwest Region

HYDE-SMITH WELCOMES $1.87 MILLION FOR DISTANCE LEARNING, TELEHEALTH PROJECTS IN THREE MISS. SCHOOL DISTRICTS

USDA Rural Development Grants to Support Networks in Clay, Lawrence & Scott Counties

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), a member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, today announced the award of grants worth more than $1.87 million for distance learning and telehealth networks in three rural Mississippi school districts.

The U.S. Department of...

WICKER, HYDE-SMITH SUPPORT MOVE TO BLOCK DEMOCRATS’ IRS SNOOPING PROPOSAL

Miss. Senators Cosponsor ‘Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Thursday helped introduce the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act, a bill to prevent the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from implementing Democrats’ plan to give the agency access to transaction information of virtually every American.

The legislation (S...

EVEN ‘SCALED BACK’ DEMOCRAT IRS SURVEILLANCE DRAGNET DESERVES A FIGHT

By U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith

Mississippians should not be lulled into complacency with talk of President Biden and his allies in Congress backing off their dangerous tax surveillance plan—the one in which practically every dollar flowing in or out of your bank account would be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.

Thousands of Mississippians who contact my office are rightfully alarmed and outraged at the idea of...