Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith issued the following statement.
Credit: Supertalk Mississippi
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today voted for final passage of an appropriations bill that will direct more than $184.1 million for 30 authorized U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects in Mississippi, including $49 million for the Yazoo Backwater Pumps and $21.9 million for Arkabutla Lake dam repairs.
The Senate passed the FY2026 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, 82-15, as part of a three-bill package (HR.6938) that will now be sent to President Trump for his consideration. Hyde-Smith, who serves on the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, worked with her colleagues to secure increased funding beyond the administration’s budget request for projects in Mississippi.
“The Army Corps always has important projects underway in Mississippi to improve our waterways and ports. I’ve been focused on ensuring it has adequate resources to make headway on securing the Arkabutla Lake dam, moving us forward on the Yazoo Backwater pumps, and sustaining our flood protection infrastructure,” Hyde-Smith said. “This is a responsible bill and I’m pleased it’s on a clear path to be signed into law.”
Hyde-Smith indicated that the FY2026 measure builds on her previous efforts to support Army Corps work in Mississippi. Army Corps witnesses at a June 2025 budget review hearing testified to their full commitment to implementing the Record of Decision for the Yazoo Backwater Area Water Management Project.
The FY2026 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill funds the Army Corps, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Department of Energy defense and nondefense programs, as well as independent agencies like the Delta Regional Authority and Appalachian Regional Commission. Items of interest to Mississippi in this measure include:
Yazoo Backwater Area Project: $49 million to support flood risk management.
Delta Headwaters Project: $5 million
Mississippi Flood Control Reservoirs and Lakes: $30.1 million
- Arkabutla Lake – $21.9 million, a $15.9 million increase over the budget request, for emergency dam repairs and regular operation and maintenance.
- Enid Lake – $5.6 million
- Grenada Lake – $5.7 million
- Sardis Lake – $6.8 million
Mississippi Ports: $21.8 million for dredging, operation and maintenance activities
- Greenville Harbor – $3 million, a $1.67 million increase
- Vicksburg Harbor - $2.4 million, a 1.38 million increase
- Rosedale Harbor – $3.1 million, a 1.65 million increase
- Gulfport Harbor – $6.7 million
- Pascagoula Harbor – $6.5 million
Mississippi Water and Wastewater Infrastructure: $28.8 million to support water/wastewater infrastructure
- DeSoto County - $15 million
- City of Meridian – $10 million
- Rankin County – $3.8 million
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: $31 million for operation, maintenance, and wildlife mitigation activities
Independent Agencies:
- Appalachian Regional Commission: $200 million
- Delta Regional Authority: $32 million
The enactment of this three-bill package will mean Congress has approved six of the 12 annual appropriations bills for FY2026. HR.6938 spends less money—$10 billion less—than if these agencies were funded under a continuing resolution. Congress has until Jan. 30 to act on the remaining FY2026 funding bills before a current continuing resolution expires.
Note: President Trump signed the bill into law.
19 comments:
Bribing the taxpayers with their own money.
Is an election coming up this year?
you mean some yankee’s money because Mississippi dont pay for that!
Yeeehaw Minnie Pearl done gone up to DC and brought back the bacon! haaaaw!
Where is the $$ for one lake? I guess flood risk management doesn't apply to the highest concentration of population?
Hell yeah thanks CHS! At least she is spending our tax dollars spent HERE instead of Ukraine, can’t say the same about our other worthless reps. Kudos to her!
Otherwise it would go to Ukraine
Federales finally making good on their own plan. About damn time.
That’s a lucky bunch of 65 people who benefit from this crap
Exactly why I voted for her - fiscal conservatism!!! Oh, and as an added bonus we can finally save those deer camps.
January 27, 2026 at 11:56 AM
You fuckers bitch when industry does come to Mississippi.
The handful who live in Issaquena County will be thrilled.
Thank you CHS because Bennie Thompson doesn't give a shit about those people, and there are some black farm hands than live in that area as well. For all of those bitching and moaning, this project was approved and funded years ago and the federal government squandered those funds. This is a self-made problem created by the Federal Government and the Corp of Engineers. You might need to study up on this before you start talking. They created a stopper in a bathtub with no way to let the water out when it starts running.
Also, this affects, Sharkey, Issaquena, Warren, Yazoo, Humphreys and Parts of Washington Counties.
Sadly, a lot of these funds will be wasted fighting groups like Sierra Club who are hippies in NE Jackson who would rather see wildlife parish and chemicals in the water than let these pumps be built. They are blinded by their own ignorance of the area and the elevations that will actually cause the pumps to be cut on.
First time I've heard her name in over a year. WTH does she do with her time ?
All bullshit aside, the Yazoo pumps are very much needed, both for humans and wildlife. Much of the cost is for mitigation; buying land and flood easements. Once the pumps are installed, the only thing they will drain is land that floods once every few years. The environmental groups will have you to believe the pumps will drain wetlands all over the lower Delta, but that is simply not the case, it’s just a fundraising tactic to make donors fearful. If you ever tour the lower Delta during a high water event, you’ll see animals that are desperate, emaciated, and/or dead. The pumps will prevent that type of carnage. The main reason the pumps are controversial is because that controversy raises a lot of money for environmental groups.
She's more fiscally conservative than Warmonger Wicker.
I thought she'd found her backbone when she went after Trump over the ignorant proposed Argentinian beef deal which would have hurt and been a slap in the face to our American farmer. But no, he's still pulling her puppet strings. She's got a Republican opponent and 3 Democrats.
Being more conservative than Wicker is hardly a standard, she is not conservative by any stretching of the definition of the word.
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