{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-committee-review-trump-supplemental-funding-request-agriculture-defense", "HYDE-SMITH, COMMITTEE REVIEW TRUMP SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING REQUEST FOR AGRICULTURE, DEFENSE", "2026-07-22", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "Senate Appropriations Committee Assesses $11.1B Request for Ag Assistance, $70B for Defense Readiness\n\nVIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Agriculture Secretary Rollins About Continued Assistance Payments for Farmers.\n\nVIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Questions Defense Secretary Hegseth on Supplemental Funding Request and FY2027 Shipbuilding Budget.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) on Tuesday questioned Trump administration officials on the utility of Congress providing supplemental appropriations this year to bolster national security and continue agricultural assistance for row and specialty crop producers.\n\nAs a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Hyde-Smith participated in a hearing to review President Trump\u2019s request for supplemental funding, including $11.1 billion for temporary economic assistance for farmers and approximately $70 billion to sustain military readiness and critical capabilities upgrades.\n\nRegarding assistance to farmers, Hyde-Smith signaled her support for continuing to provide bridge payments to help producers overcome low commodity prices and escalated input costs.\n\n\u201cOur row crop producers, as you\u2019ve mentioned in your opening remarks, are truly in a serious situation. I\u2019ve talked to multi-generation farmers back home who are the best of the best that did not even plant this year because they could not make the numbers work. And producers in Mississippi and nationwide continue to face these economic conditions,\u201d Hyde-Smith told Rollins. \u201cIf we want the next generation to stay on the land, we\u2019re going to have to take this opportunity to provide this critical market assistance for our farmers and enact policies that build structural demands for commodities, like the Buying American Cotton Act and year-round E15. All of which would make the paths better, more favorable for these producers going forward.\u201d\n\nRollins discussed the need for bridge payments and administration actions to bring down input costs.\n\n\u201cAs of today, ensuring that we can keep these farmers farming while we\u2019re opening the markets, while we\u2019re bringing down the cost of inputs is paramount for a secure America. And that\u2019s why this is so important today,\u201d Rollins said.\n\nOn the Department of Defense request, Hyde-Smith also said the supplemental request lines up with her support for the nation\u2019s warfighters. She also sought Hegseth\u2019s input on the future of domestic shipbuilding.\n\n\u201cI, as well, am committed to ensuring that our war fighters have all the tools necessary to accomplish the mission in Iran and whatever else that they need to defend our nation\u2019s interests. The supplemental request is in line with that goal,\u201d Hyde-Smith said.\n\nHyde-Smith questioned the Defense Department\u2019s FY2027 budget request for a single DDG 51 destroyer instead of the two destroyers desired by naval leadership, as well as the long-term impact on U.S. shipbuilding as the Navy explores using allied shipbuilders and foreign fabricators.\n\n\u201cThe department is exploring options for using allied shipyards and overseas fabrication in future naval construction, which raises questions about the long-term role of the American naval industrial base or shifting work away from domestic ship builders \u2013 shipyards like Ingalls in Mississippi,\u201d Hyde-Smith said. \u201cThey need the confidence that the work will be there so they can invest in new facilities, hire and train skilled workers, and expand capacity that we will need in the future.\u201d\n\nHegseth pointed to his earlier testimony about the need to accelerate mission capabilities overall to overcome past funding shortfalls and lack of investment in the military during previous administrations. The Trump administration has requested a more than $1.5 trillion defense budget in FY2027.\n\n\u201cYou just you just made the case for this generational investment because of the underinvestment, Senator, in shipbuilding in the previous administration \u2013 just static flat bureaucratic, slow. We\u2019re having to revitalize that industry and one DDG is a reflection of a backlog in capability. So, as we ramp on more CA [Contract Administration] capacity, those numbers of DDGs, the workhorse of our Navy, will go up as we grow that force,\u201d Hegseth told Hyde-Smith.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-29T07:41:48Z", "2026-07-29T07:42:57Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-committee-review-trump-supplemental-funding-request-agriculture-defense"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8925870060920715, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}