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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — U.S. Congresswoman Susie Lee sent a letter on Apr. 7 to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin regarding SBA's newly enacted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), requesting it also include gaming small businesses.

This program was enacted to provide relief to small businesses to allow them to keep employees on payroll while non-essential businesses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Congresswoman says they failed to include gaming small businesses.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers want to prioritize food insecurity in the next round of COVID-19 relief legislation.

Future federal coronavirus relief packages should focus on places like Nevada where the economic damage will be outsized regardless of the actual number of COVID-19 cases, said Rep. Susie Lee during a live-streamed event on Monday.

"We're putting the airplane together while we're flying it," said Lee of the coronavirus relief efforts recently undertaken by Congress. "We're literally at war with an invisible invader. One that we don't all know how it'll play out."

LAUGHLIN — Nevada Congresswoman Susie Lee discussed Laughlin's financial situation on the heels of Aldape's Market shutting its doors.

"There's no doubt that Laughlin has been hit hard by the economic shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic, making the closure of Aldape's even more difficult to bear," Lee said. "For many residents without easy access to transportation, Aldape's closure means having to find a way to get across the river to purchase basic necessities."