Rep. Susie Lee, the Nevada Democrat seeking another term in the state’s Third Congressional District, has been reimbursed $81,615 in taxpayer funds for lodging in Washington, D.C., going back to January 2023, according to House spending records reviewed by Breitbart News.
The reimbursements were paid under budget object code 2107, with the most recent payments reported through June 2026. They have continued while Lee’s personal financial disclosure, filed in 2025, puts her estimated net worth somewhere between roughly $2.17 million and $6.46 million.
The Largest Reimbursements
Individual payments during that span varied considerably. The biggest single reimbursement was $4,176 for October 2023. Two others came in at $3,354 each โ one for March 2023 and another for May of the same year.
More recent claims were smaller. The records show $2,744 for January 2025, $2,760 for June 2025, and $2,484 for April 2026.
The House created the reimbursement program in late 2022 to let members recover qualifying lodging, meal and incidental costs incurred while doing official business in Washington. It was pitched as a way to offset the burden of keeping a residence both in the capital and back home โ a problem that, per a June 2024 report from the Pop Vox Foundation, had pushed some lawmakers to sleep in their congressional offices because they could not afford D.C. housing.
Nothing in the records reviewed indicates that Lee’s reimbursements, standing alone, broke House rules. The information cited does not establish an income or wealth cutoff for participation. Lee’s office did not respond to Breitbart News’s request for comment before publication.
Past Scrutiny Over Disclosure Issues
This is not the first time Lee’s financial filings have drawn attention. In September 2021, Business Insider reported that she had failed to properly disclose more than 200 stock transactions dating to early 2020, with values estimated between about $267,000 and $3.3 million.
Her office said a third-party money manager had executed the trades without her involvement, and that she worked with a financial adviser and the House Ethics Committee to submit the disclosures after learning about them. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed an ethics complaint against her afterward.
A year later, in August 2022, Business Insider reported another batch of late disclosures โ eight transactions made by Lee and her husband during 2021, worth up to $155,000. FACT responded with a second complaint, contending that members of Congress bear responsibility for timely disclosure whether or not they personally place the trades.
That September, a New York Times investigation placed Lee among 97 members of Congress whose families had traded stocks in sectors potentially touched by their committee work. The Times identified six possible conflicts tied to Lee’s transactions, including pharmaceutical and healthcare holdings, while she sat on a committee examining drug pricing and surprise medical billing. A spokesperson said a money manager handled the trades without her input.
Pricey Stays on Sponsored Travel
Separate from the Washington lodging reimbursements, Lee has taken a series of international trips sponsored by Center Forward, a bipartisan dark-money organization that the Detroit News notes has drawn funding historically from large corporations and the pharmaceutical industry group PhRMA.
Her most recent travel disclosure lists $13,765.13 in spending by the group on her June 2026 trip to Amsterdam โ $11,660.13 for transportation and $1,780 for lodging. She stayed at the W Amsterdam, a Marriott luxury spa property with rooms running about $450 a night.
In June 2025, Center Forward spent $23,868 so that Lee and her adult son could attend an International Issues Conference in London, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The two stayed at the five-star InterContinental London Park Lane, where accommodations cost about $290 per night. The House Ethics Committee signed off on that trip.
The organization also paid $3,450 for Lee and her daughter to attend an ethics committee-approved conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 2024. They stayed at The Ivens Hotel, with rooms around $300 per night.
Taken together, the three disclosed trips accounted for more than $41,000 in Center Forward-sponsored travel between 2024 and 2026.
A Contested Reelection Race
Lee is running for another term in a district that has drawn Republican attention. In March, GOP candidate Dr. Jeff Gunter criticized her, saying she “just wants to line her pockets,” accused her of having “aided and abetted Joe Biden in flooding our country with illegal aliens,” and described her as “out of touch.”
The congresswoman has also generated headlines for her public commentary. Despite regularly promoting her bipartisan record, she deleted an April post about Trump’s planned Supreme Court visit in which she wrote that she would pray the justices would, in vulgar terms, be humiliated to their faces. She later said War Secretary Pete Hegseth made her want to physically attack him.
In July, Lee voted for legislation banning members of Congress from buying individual stocks, a vote that came amid backlash over a trust tied to her that sold up to $1 million in casino shares in July 2025 โ roughly two weeks before the stock fell sharply. Her office said she was moving holdings she received in her divorce into diversified funds, going “above and beyond what’s required of her by law and ethics rules.”
The lodging reimbursements remain the central focus of the latest records review, which shows a steady stream of taxpayer-funded payments spread across more than three years of Lee’s time in Washington.
Source: www.breitbart.com โ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/09/28/multimillionaire-democrat-rep-susie-lee-collected-81k-in-taxpayer-funded-d-c-lodging-reimbursements/