Congresswoman Lee Secures Over $6.6 Million for Nevada in Federal Funding Bills

Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) helped secure over $6.6 million in federal investments for community projects throughout southern Nevada as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) funding process. In total, Congresswoman Lee brought nearly $12 million in federal funding back home to southern Nevada from FY26 funding packages. 

“Like all Nevadans, I’m tired of sending money to D.C. so it can go to other states instead of right here in our community. That’s why I’m working every day from my seat on the House Appropriations Committee to make sure Nevada gets its fair share of federal funding,” said Congresswoman Susie Lee. “I was proud to secure over $6.6 million to make our roads safer, make life easier for our neighbors with disabilities, and give our first responders the tools they need to keep our community safe.”

Highlights of the Investments Secured by Rep. Lee include:

• $2,000,000 to make safety improvements to a 15-mile section of SR 159, a roadway heavily utilized by visitors of the Red Rock National Conservation Area, including vulnerable road users like joggers and cyclists.
• $1,200,000 to build trail bridges to the CC-215 Beltway Trail over Sunset Run Drive and Sky Vista Drive, which will increase multimodal mobility, improve safety, and enhance quality of life for residents.
• $1,100,000 to improve the safety of 281 school zones, where many face traffic fatalities and serious injuries, by installing new visual alert systems, signs, and pavement markings to warn drivers and keep children safe.
• $1,034,487 to make critical upgrades to the emergency notification, communication, and information management systems at the South Site Emergency Operations Center, which serves as the central command hub for Clark County during emergencies.
• $850,000 for Opportunity Village, a non-profit organization that serves people in the Las Vegas community with intellectual disabilities, to build a new Northwest Campus. This new campus will significantly enhance accessibility to vital services for people with disabilities living in southern Nevada.
• $250,000 to bring the Airfield Rescue and Fire Fighting facilities at Harry Reid International Airport up to current Federal Aviation Administration safety, operational, and environmental standards, which will ensure the continuation of safe and efficient airport operations for years to come.
• $250,000 to install bus shelters within the existing public transit service area to offer increased shade and cooling to combat the extreme heat facing southern Nevada's bus passengers, improving both safety and comfort for transit users.

More information on each of these projects can be found here. 

In addition to securing funding for those community projects, Congresswoman Lee also used her seat on the House Appropriations Committee, the committee in charge of federal spending, to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in additional resources to improve national security. Some of the programs that Congresswoman Lee advanced include: 

• $98,000,000 to fund the development of advanced, efficient, long-range drones which are designed to operate in dangerous environments to gather intelligence and respond to threats more safely, quickly, and effectively without risking the lives of U.S. troops.
• $30,000,000 to support the final development and installation of visual technologies for helicopters which provides capability to execute missions in near-zero visibility.
• $18,000,000 for an Adaptive Threat Modeling Lab, a facility that continuously studies how adversaries could exploit U.S. systems and defenses as conditions change, helping national security professionals anticipate attacks, reduce vulnerabilities, and stay ahead of emerging threats.
• $15,000,000 for the continued development of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) and Counter Cruise Missile (C-CM) High-Energy Lasers (HEL) Atmospheric Study and Prototype Systems, systems designed to detect and destroy incoming cruise missiles to provide a fast, precise, and cost-effective way to protect U.S. forces, ships, and critical infrastructure from modern missile threats.
• $10,000,000 to construct an organic U.S. chloralkali plant to recycle waste from rare earth element processing and reuse that waste to make essential chemicals like chlorine and caustic soda, reducing the United States’ dependence on foreign supply chains for materials critical to defense, energy, and advanced manufacturing.
• $7,500,000 for a collaborative sensor network under the Space Force’s Space Situation Awareness Operations. A collaborative sensor network for satellites is a system where multiple satellites share and combine their sensor data in real time to better detect, track, and respond to threats in space, improving early warning, resilience, and decision-making against adversaries.
• $5,000,000 to research, develop, test, and evaluate Low Cost Carbon-Carbon-Ceramic Brake Rotors as a critical component for improving contested logistics. New advances in US-based carbon sourcing and manufacturing processes allow for carbon-carbon and carbon ceramic materials to be produced in faster, streamlined manners. Defense entities and fleet vehicle applications will realize increased durability, lighter weight, and reduced maintenance costs.
• $4,000,000 to integrate Mobile Communications capability with Submarine Interior Communications Systems and the CANES Secure Network, delivering mobile hardware devices and optimizing communication networks on submarines to improve flexibility, mobility, and interoperability while adhering to rigid cybersecurity standards. 

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