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Recurring feud

The Ilhan Omar feud

A running public back-and-forth between Rep. Nancy Mace and Rep. Ilhan Omar across 2025-2026. Omar's replies consistently drew broader attention than Mace's attacks, including a March 2026 exchange in which Omar told Mace to 'stay off social media when you are drunk,' and a September 2025 censure effort that failed 214-213 after Omar noted the resolution contained no actual quote from her.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, Getty Images via Salon
Photo: Salon / Getty Images. Source

Rep. Nancy Mace has repeatedly targeted Rep. Ilhan Omar on X across 2025 and 2026. In both documented rounds, Omar's responses drew substantially more attention than Mace's initial posts.

Round one, September 2025: the failed censure

In September 2025, Mace introduced a resolution to censure Omar. The measure failed 214-213. Omar publicly noted on X that the resolution contained no actual quote from her because, as she wrote, Mace "couldn't find any." The failed vote drew bipartisan criticism of Mace's tactics, with multiple Republican members crossing over to defeat the measure, per Axios and The New Republic.

Omar's response to the censure attempt, her words, as posted to X.

Round two, March 2026: "stay off social media when you are drunk"

On March 1, 2026, Mace posted a message to X about Omar and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, offering mock "thoughts and prayers." Omar's reply, in which she told Mace to "restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk", drew significant pickup in national media, per Salon and HuffPost. The characterization that Mace had been warned by her own staff about social media use while drinking is attributed to Omar's post; Mace has not publicly addressed the allegation.

Mace's "thoughts and prayers" post (March 1, 2026):

Mace's post, which drew Omar's widely-shared response.

Omar's reply (March 1, 2026):

Omar's response, her words, as posted to X.

Sources & related coverage

  • April 20, 2026 · Dispatch

    The Cory Mills expulsion fight

    After Rep. Cory Mills helped table Mace's Omar censure, the two traded dueling expulsion resolutions, Mace's citing allegations against Mills, Mills' citing her Charleston airport incident. Both allegations are contested and unproven; both members faced House Ethics scrutiny.

  • March 5, 2026 · Dispatch

    'I'm not your prop', Tim Walz

    At a March 2026 congressional hearing, Mace again pressed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to 'define a woman'; Walz replied, 'I'm not here to be your prop for your obsession,' a retort that drew wide coverage, with right-leaning outlets framing it as Mace scoring a point, while mainstream reporting favored Walz's rejoinder.

  • January 7, 2026 · Dispatch

    'No, baby, you're not'

    At a January 7, 2026 House Oversight hearing, Mace told Rep. Ayanna Pressley 'No baby, you're not. You are not in order. You're out of order. Goodbye. You're done.' after a jab about Pressley landing an MSNBC slot. The clip went viral; Mace was widely mocked for invoking congressional decorum while calling a colleague 'baby.'

  • September 10, 2025 · Dispatch

    'Get your nose done'

    When Rep. Sara Jacobs argued on the House floor that cosmetic procedures are forms of gender-affirming care, Mace shouted 'You are disgusting' from her seat, then followed up on X with a remark telling the Jewish congresswoman to 'get your nose done,' which antisemitism watchdogs condemned as an antisemitic trope.

  • January 14, 2025 · Dispatch

    "Take it outside"

    During the January 14, 2025 House Oversight Committee organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace challenged Rep. Jasmine Crockett, "If you want to take it outside, we can do that", weeks after Mace had claimed an activist injured her arm with an aggressive handshake, a characterization critics disputed. The contrast spawned a round of memes pairing her challenge with images of full-body casts.

  • November 20, 2024 · Dispatch

    Her ex-comms director torches her

    Natalie Johnson, Mace's former communications director, publicly derided the November 2024 bathroom-bill push as 'a ploy to get on Fox News,' writing that Mace tweeted about the bill 262 times in 36 hours despite it applying to a vanishingly small fraction of Congress. The posts were widely covered by Mediaite, Salon, and Newsweek.