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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
May 4, 2022

Senator Hyde-Smith seeks justification for increasing IRS budget

The Biden administration’s FY2023 budget recommends $14.1 billion for the IRS, a 12% increase over the $12.6 billion provided by Congress for FY2022. On Tuesday, the Senate Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee held a meeting to discuss the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request from the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In his testimony,…
Culture  |  Guest Editorial  • 
May 4, 2022

SALTER: Title 42 and immigration politics: What the issue means to Mississippi and the South

By: Sid Salter The latest skirmish in the nation’s highly partisan, often logically erratic fight over the broad topic of immigration is being fought over the Biden Administration’s plan to rescind an obscure public health law written 78 years ago to stop the spread of communicable diseases like tuberculosis. Title 42, part of the 1944…