Nancy Mace 'Had Full-Blown Panic Attack' After Meeting Epstein Survivors

Newsweek reported on September 3, 2025 that Rep. Nancy Mace left a closed-door House Oversight Committee briefing with Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors and stated she had experienced a full-blown panic attack, describing symptoms including sweating, hyperventilating, and shaking, while listening to survivors' accounts. Mace, who has publicly disclosed her own history as a sexual assault survivor, tied her reaction to her personal trauma. The briefing was part of the House Oversight Committee's investigation into how federal agencies handled the Epstein case and the release of related records.

Theo Burman · September 3, 2025

"sweating, hyperventilating and shaking", Rep. Nancy Mace, describing her reaction at the Epstein briefing

Newsweek Live News Reporter Theo Burman reported on September 3, 2025 that Rep. Mace departed a closed-door House Oversight Committee briefing with Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors, saying she had experienced a panic attack during the session. Mace described physical symptoms, sweating, hyperventilating, and shaking, and attributed her reaction to her own history as a sexual assault survivor, which she had disclosed publicly in prior years.

The briefing was part of the committee's ongoing investigation into how federal agencies, including the FBI and DOJ, handled the Epstein case and the potential release of records related to his network. Mace is a member of the House Oversight Committee.

"I gave up my political career for that discharge petition. And I would do it all over again."

Opening her Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Nancy Mace said she gave up her political career for the Epstein victims discharge petition and would do it again. She then confirmed that Trump 'ultimately punished' her for it: 'Oh, 100%.'

September 2, 2026 · Dispatch

"Back to the private sector I go", outgoing Rep. Nancy Mace confirms she is leaving Congress for the private sector in January

On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ she is definitively leaving Congress in January and returning to the private sector. "Back to the private sector I go," she said, adding she would "go back and work like every other hardworking American."

August 21, 2026 · Dispatch

Rare Earth, Wellness, and Defense Tech: Nancy Mace's Post-Congress Wish List

August 21, 2026 · Dispatch

'I Kind of Want to Whittle Sticks': Nancy Mace Says She's Done With Elected Office

August 17, 2026 · Dispatch

Mace wants to ban members living with staff. Sources Say says former aides see a complication.

Juliegrace Brufke reported for Sources Say News that Rep. Nancy Mace introduced resolutions to bar House members from sexual relationships with employees and from living with employees, while former Mace staffers described earlier campaign and congressional arrangements they said complicate the line. Mace's office rejected the premise, saying the suggestion that she lived with staff, directed employees to stay at her home, or maintained a crash pad for federal employees is false.

July 22, 2026 · Dispatch

"How self-loathing are they": Mace asks "how many Jews voted for Mamdani," doubles down when Piers Morgan calls it "an extraordinary charge." Israel's UN ambassador, asked twice, declines to agree.

On the July 22, 2026 episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, Rep. Nancy Mace reacted to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's call for the federal government to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by asking "how many Jews voted for Mamdani," calling Jewish New Yorkers who backed him "self-loathing," and saying she is perplexed by "this guy coming to America eight years ago from Kampala." Mamdani moved to New York in 1999, at age 7; eight years ago matches his 2018 naturalization, not his arrival. When Morgan called her words "an extraordinary charge," Mace repeated them. Later in the same episode Morgan put her quote to Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon twice; Danon declined to agree both times.