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  • "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%.'

  • "I just go off the rails sometimes": Mace responds to critics who call her 'crazy'

    Rep. Nancy Mace, in a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, acknowledged that she sometimes 'goes off the rails' but pushed back on critics who call her 'crazy,' saying: 'Being nice has gotten us off the rails. I'm just bringing back common sense.'

  • "I'm leaving Congress because I can't get shit done": Mace explains exit in her own words

    Rep. Nancy Mace told Tara Palmeri on Sept. 1, 2026 that she is leaving Congress because she 'can't get shit done,' citing her inability to pass women's safety legislation as the defining frustration of her tenure.

  • Nancy Mace introduced 90 bills this Congress. Zero became law.

    Rep. Nancy Mace, in a Sept. 1, 2026 interview with Tara Palmeri, acknowledged she introduced 90 bills this Congress and that zero became law. Asked what she actually accomplished without Nancy Mace, she pointed to the 'bully pulpit.'

  • Mace Calls Herself an 'Empty Nester' on Camera: She Has Joint Custody of Her Daughter

    On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace told TMZ she is an 'empty nester and single' and got a puppy 'so I could have a baby to take care of.' Mace has joint custody of her 17-year-old daughter from her 2019 divorce from Curtis Jackson. 'Empty nester' is a term for parents whose children have grown and left the home, not parents with joint custody of a minor. Her own words on camera confirm her daughter is not living with her.

  • "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."

  • Mace tells Piers Morgan her tattoos helped her process trauma: "One of the ways that I have dealt with that trauma is by artwork, is by the tattooing"

    In a September 1, 2026 interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Rep. Nancy Mace directly connects her public tattoo reveal to trauma recovery, says she was 'not hiding behind the trauma' of recent years, calls out the Pete Hegseth double standard, and confirms she has more than nine tattoos. She says leaving Congress means she can finally go sleeveless freely.

  • Mace missed another vote yesterday. The only House members skipping more are on medical leave.

    The U.S. House came back on Monday, August 31, 2026 from its five-week August recess, and Rep. Nancy Mace missed both of the first two roll-call votes, one of 42 members absent. It fits a documented pattern: Mace has missed 36.1% of all 2026 votes through August, more than one in three, against a House median near one in fifty. The only two sitting members who have missed a larger share of 2026's votes, Thomas Kean Jr. and Frederica Wilson, were both on disclosed medical leave. Mace has given no public reason for her absences.

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

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

  • 'Absolutely... was not invited': House Majority Leader Steve Scalise came to Nancy Mace's own Lowcountry to lift her replacement, and Mace was left off the list

    In mid-August 2026, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise swung through South Carolina to boost Jenny Costa Honeycutt, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for the 1st Congressional District seat Nancy Mace is vacating. Scalise appeared at a Charleston event in the heart of Mace's own district, alongside Honeycutt and Rep. Mike Haridopolos. Nancy Mace, still the sitting congresswoman for that district, was nowhere in sight. Asked whether Mace was part of it, a source in Honeycutt's campaign said she was 'Absolutely... not invited.'

  • Mace wants a bill to ban staff from living with members. Her own staff say they lived with her.

    On August 17, 2026, Sources Say News, the Capitol Hill outlet founded by reporter Juliegrace Brufke, reported that Rep. Nancy Mace's new push to bar House members from living with their staff runs into her own history. Mace introduced two resolutions on July 30, 2026, H.Res.1465 (no sexual relationships with House employees) and H.Res.1466 (no cohabitating with House employees, married couples excepted), pitching them with the line 'a boss and a roommate should never be the same person.' Multiple former Mace aides told the outlet that a senior campaign aide lived in an apartment above the garage at her Daniel Island home during her first campaign, and that in spring 2022 a senior aide was put up in the basement of her D.C. townhouse, sleeping behind a curtain a few feet from where Mace made her morning coffee. Mace's office flatly denies she ever lived with staff or maintained a 'crash pad,' and one source and a bill proponent draw a distinction between a short platonic stay in a separate space and living with a staffer.

  • 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.

  • One of 192: Nancy Mace's Legislative Record

  • "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.

  • "When was your gender revealed?": Mace's five minutes with the Smithsonian's American History director

    Nancy Mace spent her five minutes at the House DOGE subcommittee's Smithsonian hearing demanding yes-or-no answers from Dr. Anthea Hartig, the PhD historian who has led the National Museum of American History since 2019. On video, verbatim: 'what is a woman,' 'when was your gender revealed,' and a diary she called 'featuring a six-year-old' that the museum says was written by a 13-year-old.

  • You don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.

    At a June 30, 2026 House Oversight hearing convened specifically to examine the CIA's MKUltra program, Rep. Nancy Mace spent roughly the first two of her five allotted minutes questioning the hearing's non-MKUltra witness about Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins, and vaccine side effects. When the witness told her, eight separate times, that the subject was outside her expertise, Mace told her: 'You don't know anything about MKUltra, which is the purpose of this hearing.' Only then, with most of her time gone, did she turn to the witnesses who were actually there to discuss MKUltra.

  • 'My time is up at the end of this year': Mace confirms she's leaving Congress

    In her concession after the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace confirmed she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House: 'my time is up at the end of this year.' Her House term ends in January 2027. She has described the exit as keeping a three-term pledge she says she made in 2020, a characterization examined below.

  • Mace continues House duties amid governor run

    The congresswoman continued her work in the U.S. House while campaigning for governor, now in her third term representing South Carolina's 1st district.

  • Members Of Congress Caught Skipping TSA Lines During Shutdown Chaos

    Live and Let's Fly reports on the viral video of Mace and Wasserman Schultz at Reagan National (DCA), covers Sen. Cornyn's 'End Special Treatment for Congress at Airports Act,' and contextualizes the episode within a shutdown that left TSA officers working without pay.

  • '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.

  • ?Pillaged and plundered by Somali pirates? four moments from Mace questioning Walz

    A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz at the March 4, 2026 House Oversight hearing on alleged misuse of federal funds, from accusing Walz of the worst fraud scandal in American history to the "34,200% increase" math exchange.

  • 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.

  • "No baby, you are done", Mace cuts Pressley's mic from the chair

    A supercut of two verbatim moments from the January 7, 2026 House Oversight hearing on alleged misuse of federal funds in Minnesota, Part I, Rep. Ayanna Pressley attempting to speak, and Chairwoman Mace cutting off her microphone.

  • '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.'

  • 2025 in review: from Congress to a governor's bid

    A look back at 2025, the year Nancy Mace's focus turned toward the South Carolina governorship while serving her third term in the U.S. House.

  • Mace tells Rep. Cory Mills 'You're a disgrace' on the House floor as her censure resolution is read

    As a clerk read Mace's censure resolution on the House floor in November 2025, she confronted Rep. Cory Mills face-to-face and told him 'You're a disgrace'; reporters also observed her appearing to mouth an additional expletive.

  • Mace tells D.C. mayor the city has become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness', and 'this is not her time'

    At a House Oversight Committee hearing on September 18, 2025, Mace told D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that the District had become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness' and cut off Bowser's responses by declaring 'this is not her time.'

  • Mace to D.C. Mayor Bowser: 'What is a woman?'

    During a September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace pressed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on the definition of 'woman' under the D.C. Code.

  • Mace to Mayor Bowser: 'You can be quiet as I ask you questions'

    During the same September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace cut off D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser mid-response with a pointed instruction.

  • "Mayor Bowser, what is a woman?", four moments from Mace's DEI hearing

    A supercut of four verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the September 18, 2025 House Oversight Committee hearing, from the viral "I'm a woman, are you a woman?" exchange to Mace pressing on DEI language in D.C. code.

  • Mace shouts 'What the hell is your problem? You are disgusting' at Rep. Jacobs on House floor, then offers surgeon referral on X

    During defense-bill debate on September 10, 2025, Mace shouted at Rep. Sara Jacobs on the House floor, then followed up on X offering Jacobs a referral to a plastic surgeon.

  • '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.

  • 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.

  • “I don’t even want to be here”, six moments from the hearing she ran on her own lawsuit

    A supercut from the House Oversight surveillance hearing Rep. Nancy Mace convened and chaired, a matter in which she is herself a party and key witness in related, ongoing civil litigation. From the chair she said she didn’t want to be there, named her litigation adversary, dared him to sue, pointed potential complainants to her congressional office, and gaveled the hearing closed.

  • "You all have blood on your hands", Mace confronts sanctuary city mayors

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning at the March 5, 2025 House Oversight hearing with sanctuary city mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver, and New York City, opening on her accusation, then her repeated "right side of history" question to multiple mayors, and Boston Mayor Wu's response.

  • Mace pins clip of herself repeating slur with caption: 'Rumor has it, saying it three times summons a Leftist meltdown'

    In February 2025, Mace pinned a clip of herself repeating an anti-transgender slur three times at a House hearing to her official congressional X account, captioning it as a joke about triggering political opponents.

  • "Arrest me. Take me to jail." Mace brings handcuffs to the House floor

    During her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace said she had been told she would be investigated and could be arrested for coming forward, then held up a pair of handcuffs and told the chamber: 'If anyone would like to arrest me for standing up for women, here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to jail.' Nearly a year later she repeated the offer in a written statement to the court in Berg v. Bryant. The men she has accused deny the allegations and the civil litigation is ongoing.

  • “Today, I’m going scorched earth”, twelve moments from Mace’s 52-minute floor speech

    A supercut of twelve verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's February 10, 2025 House floor speech, from her scorched-earth declaration to naming four men, describing what she said she found on a phone, alleging she was raped after two vodka sodas, and asserting “these are not allegations, these are facts” while the named men deny everything and the civil litigation remains ongoing.

  • "Take me to jail", Nancy Mace brings handcuffs to the House floor

    A vertical supercut of Rep. Nancy Mace's February 10, 2025 House floor speech, in which she said she had been told she would be investigated and could be arrested for coming forward, then held up handcuffs and told the chamber, "If anyone would like to arrest me for standing up for women, here are my wrists. Arrest me. Take me to jail." It closes on her January 2026 written statement to the court that a judge would have to throw her in jail before she is silenced. The men she has accused deny her allegations and the civil litigation is ongoing.

  • Mace tells Rep. Connolly she won't be 'counseled by a man over men and women's spaces'

    Continuing her exchange with Rep. Connolly at the February 5 Oversight hearing, Mace said she would not take guidance from a man on gendered spaces and characterized transgender women as having 'mental health issues.'

  • Mace repeats anti-trans slur three times on hearing record after colleague's objection: 'Tr*nny, tr*nny, tr*nny!'

    When Rep. Gerry Connolly raised a parliamentary objection to Mace's use of an anti-transgender slur, she repeated it three times on the record at the same House Oversight hearing.

  • Mace opens USAID hearing with anti-trans slur: 'Does this advance the interests of American citizens, paying for tr*****s in Guatemala?'

    At a House Oversight Committee hearing on USAID foreign spending, Mace opened with a question using a slur directed at transgender people.

  • "If you want to take it outside", Mace challenges Rep. Jasmine Crockett at a House Oversight meeting

    At the House Oversight Committee's January 14, 2025 organizational meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) 'if you want to take it outside, we can do that' after Crockett said 'and chile, listen' while criticizing Mace's rhetoric on transgender people. A Democratic member moved to have Mace's words taken down as inciting violence; Chairman James Comer said the remark could just mean stepping out for a coffee. Mace said she meant a conversation, not a fight; Crockett's office called it a threat of physical violence.

  • Nancy Mace challenges Jasmine Crockett to a fight on House floor

    Daily Beast reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee meeting where Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett they could 'take it outside' during a contentious floor debate over transgender rights.

  • Jasmine Crockett calls out 'Karen' Nancy Mace as dispute ramps up

    Newsweek reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee dispute between Reps. Mace and Crockett, in which Mace challenged Crockett to take their debate 'outside,' and Crockett later called Mace a 'Karen.'

  • "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.

  • Crockett and Mace get into heated exchange over trans rights

    The Hill reported on the January 14 House Oversight Committee meeting where Rep. Nancy Mace told Rep. Jasmine Crockett she could 'take it outside' during a heated debate over transgender rights and bathroom access.

  • Mace on transgender bathroom resolution: 'This is the last war on women and I aim to stop it'

    On November 19, 2024, Mace introduced a House resolution barring transgender women from Capitol restrooms the week before Rep.-elect Sarah McBride was to be sworn in as the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

  • "Come at me bro": Mace's most striking lines from the 2024 UAP hearing

    Co-chairing the November 13, 2024 House UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace put the alleged classified program name 'Immaculate Constellation' on the record, pressed a former Pentagon official on whether the government had reverse-engineered alien craft, and challenged the DoD's claim it had no crash-retrieval programs. The hearing's primary transcript is in the official GovInfo record.

  • Nancy Mace's UAP leadership recognized by journalists, Congressional colleagues, and UAP advocates

    Mace has received documented praise and recognition for her leadership on UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) from mainstream journalists, Congressional colleagues across the aisle, Pentagon officials, and key figures in the UAP advocacy community. Here is a comprehensive catalog of verified statements from the July 2023 and November 2024 Congressional hearings on UAP.

  • UAP video turning point

    NewsNation correspondent Ross Coulthart reported on the November 13, 2024 joint House Oversight/National Security subcommittee UAP hearing co-chaired by Rep. Nancy Mace, characterizing it as a 'turning point' in congressional awareness and signaling Congress's renewed intention to challenge the defense and intelligence community on UAP transparency.

  • “Come at me bro”, Mace puts a classified UAP program name on the record

    Co-chairing the November 13, 2024 House UAP hearing, Mace read an alleged classified program name into the record: ‘Immaculate Constellation.’ The full hearing video is public (House Oversight Committee, C-SPAN); the quote is verified against the official transcript.

  • “Reverse engineer alien craft?”, Mace presses a Pentagon witness

    At the November 13, 2024 UAP hearing, Mace pressed former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo on whether secret programs aimed to reverse-engineer recovered craft. He answered ‘Yes.’

  • Mace tells Secret Service Director: 'You're full of shit today. You're just being completely dishonest.'

    On July 22, 2024, Mace confronted Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at a House Oversight hearing on the Butler assassination attempt, calling her dishonest and filing an impeachment resolution against her the same evening; Cheatle resigned the following day.

  • "You're full of sh*t today", Mace interrogates Secret Service Director Cheatle

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle at the July 22, 2024 House Oversight hearing on the attempted assassination of President Trump. Cheatle resigned the following day.

  • Mace files 25th Amendment resolution: 'Joe Biden is a national security risk'

    One day after Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, Mace filed a privileged House resolution urging Vice President Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment, arguing Biden lacked the cognitive ability to finish his term.

  • Ex-aides dispute Rep. Nancy Mace's claims that staff 'sabotaged' her

    The Washington Post reported on May 10, 2024 that Rep. Nancy Mace had accused former members of her congressional staff of sabotaging her office, including claims that ex-aides hacked her phone, mismanaged the budget, spied on her children, and tried to destroy office devices. Former staffers interviewed by the Post vehemently disputed Mace's account, pushing back on each allegation. The exchange extended a long-running national story about the unusually high turnover in Mace's office.

  • Mace calls for Hunter Biden to be 'arrested right here, right now, and go straight to jail'

    During the January 10, 2024 House Oversight contempt hearing, Mace called for Hunter Biden's immediate on-site arrest after he appeared uninvited, making national headlines for the confrontational delivery.

  • Mace erupts at Hunter Biden: 'You are the epitome of white privilege… you have no balls to come up here'

    On January 10, 2024, Mace directed a profanity-laced tirade at Hunter Biden after he made a surprise appearance at a House Oversight contempt hearing, also calling for him to be arrested on the spot.

  • Mace mocked George Santos's 'manufactured' résumé, voted against expelling him, then hired his communications director

    On January 8, 2024, a year to the day after she called George Santos's 'entire resume in life manufactured,' Nancy Mace was reported to have hired his former communications director, Gabrielle Lipsky, into the same role, amid record turnover in her own office.

  • Mace votes against Santos expulsion: 'George Santos is an a--, who, like every other American, deserves the presumption of innocence'

    On December 1, 2023, Mace voted against expelling Rep. George Santos despite having called his entire résumé 'manufactured' eleven months earlier, arguing the expulsion vote was about shifting congressional power rather than accountability.

  • Nancy Mace Set 'Quotas' for Staff of How Many Times She Wanted to Appear on Television Per Day: Report

    Mediaite reported on November 2, 2023 that, according to documents obtained by The Daily Beast, Rep. Nancy Mace's staff handbook required her communications team to book her on national television between one and three times per day and on local television at least six times per week. The handbook, which Mace wrote herself, also allocated more than one-third of her congressional office's annual budget, approximately $500,000, to 'marketing,' an unusually high proportion for a congressional office. Former aides described an office culture in which legislation served primarily as a vehicle for media opportunities rather than policy outcomes.

  • Mace refuses to back Scalise for Speaker: 'I cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference'

    On October 11, 2023, Mace said on CNN she could not vote for Steve Scalise as House Speaker because he had spoken at an event associated with David Duke's white nationalist organization in 2002; Scalise ultimately withdrew his candidacy.

  • Mace wears scarlet-letter shirt: 'I will do the right thing every single time'

    On October 11, 2023, one week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mace wore a red 'A' T-shirt to Congress and described feeling demonized as a woman for her vote.

  • Mace explains McCarthy ouster vote: 'This isn't about left vs right. This is about trust and keeping your word.'

    On October 3, 2023, Mace was one of eight Republicans to vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, citing his failure to keep his word on women's issues legislation and a balanced-budget amendment.

  • “When you shake my hand”, nine moments from Mace's McCarthy-ouster presser

    A supercut of nine verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's press conference outside the Capitol on October 3, 2023, the day the House voted 216-210 to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the first Speaker in U.S. history ousted by a motion to vacate. From her opening shot on broken promises to the chaos she warned McCarthy would leave behind.

  • UFO hearing: non-human biologics and UAPs

    NPR reported on the July 26-27, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, covering whistleblower David Grusch's testimony about alleged government recovery of non-human biologics and the congressional response including questions from Rep. Nancy Mace.

  • Have aliens visited Earth? After UFO hearing, Nancy Mace wants evidence she can touch

    Post and Courier reporter Anna Byrd profiled Rep. Nancy Mace's role in the July 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, where Byrd characterized Mace as 'a breakout star for her line of questioning that boldly went where no congressional hearing has gone before.' The piece explored Mace's efforts to secure tangible evidence of non-human artifacts.

  • "Human or nonhuman biologics?", Mace's question that defined the 2023 UAP hearing

    At the July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace asked whistleblower David Grusch whether the government's recovered remains were 'human or nonhuman biologics.' Grusch answered: 'Non-human.' The two-word reply made Mace the congressional face of a hearing that trended worldwide and set off days of internet memes.

  • Whistleblower tells Rep. Nancy Mace the government has recovered non-human biologics

    ABC News 4 (Charleston) reported on the July 26, 2023 House Oversight hearing, covering whistleblower David Grusch's direct testimony to Rep. Nancy Mace about alleged government recovery of non-human biologics from crashed aircraft.

  • UFO whistleblower testifies before Congress

    CNN reported on the July 26, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged U.S. government possession of recovered non-human craft, with Rep. Nancy Mace among the lawmakers pressing him for details.

  • UFO whistleblower admits to the existence of non-human biologics

    NBC News covered the July 26, 2023 House Oversight hearing in which whistleblower David Grusch testified about the U.S. government's alleged possession of non-human biologics recovered from crashed aircraft, highlighted through video of his exchange with Rep. Nancy Mace.

  • The 'non-human biologics' hearing

    Mace's deadpan questions about 'non-human biologics' and her demand for evidence she could touch made her the congressional face of a UAP hearing the internet spent days turning into a meme.

  • Whistleblower at UAP hearing claims U.S. found 'non-human' remains

    Roll Call covered the House Oversight subcommittee hearing on July 26, 2023, where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged U.S. government possession of non-human biologics recovered from aircraft of 'non-human' origin. Rep. Nancy Mace questioned Grusch directly on whether any recovered biologics were human or non-human.

  • House UAP secrecy hearing

    The Hill covered the July 26, 2023 House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, where whistleblower David Grusch testified about alleged government secrecy surrounding recovered non-human craft and biologics.

  • "Human or nonhuman biologics?", three moments from Mace's UAP hearing questioning

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's questioning at the July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, opening on the biologics exchange, then her questions about government contact with extraterrestrials and the recovery of craft and bodies.

  • "Where did you go to medical school?", Mace vs. Twitter CLO Vijaya Gadde

    A supercut of three verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace’s questioning at the February 8, 2023 House Oversight Twitter Files hearing, from her setup on Stanford and Harvard doctors censored by Twitter, to the viral medical school exchange with Vijaya Gadde, to Mace pressing Gadde on what authority she had to override doctors.

  • Mace on congressional trust: 'If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog'

    On January 8, 2023, Mace summed up the difficulty of trusting colleagues in Congress after the chaotic McCarthy speaker votes with a line that became widely quoted as a pithy summary of Washington dysfunction.

  • Mace says George Santos's 'entire résumé in life was manufactured', then votes against his expulsion

    On January 8, 2023, Mace was among the first Republicans to publicly attack George Santos's fabricated biography; eleven months later she voted against expelling him from Congress, calling it a political maneuver.

  • Mace calls MTG committee removal 'unprecedented', weeks after warning QAnon was leading the GOP

    On February 4, 2021, Mace defended Marjorie Taylor Greene from being stripped of her committee assignments, weeks after warning that QAnon conspiracy theorists were leading the Republican Party toward a constitutional crisis.

Incidents

  • "What is a woman?", Mace's recurring hearing-room test

    Across at least six House Oversight appearances from June 2024 to March 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace pressed an adversarial witness, Maya Wiley, Martin O'Malley, Fatima Goss Graves, Gov. Tim Walz (twice), and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, to answer 'What is a woman?' on camera. The clips, the verbatim exchanges, and her own posts are collected here.

  • The scarlet letter 'A' (Oct. 2023)

    On October 10, 2023, a week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Mace walked into a closed-door Speaker candidate forum wearing a white tank top printed with a large red letter 'A', her self-described 'scarlet letter', saying she would not be 'demonized' or shamed into silence for her vote.

  • Nancy Mace and the UAP hearings

    Rep. Nancy Mace chaired or co-chaired two major House Oversight UAP hearings, July 26, 2023 and November 13, 2024, and made a series of on-record statements about unidentified aerial phenomena, recovered craft, and alien technology. The 2023 exchange about 'nonhuman biologics' went globally viral; the 2024 hearing drew formal cross-aisle praise. In December 2024 she said alien craft 'has to be on the table' in the New Jersey drone controversy.

Wiki & people

  • Adam Kinzinger

    Former Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois (2011-2023) and now a CNN political commentator, one of Nancy Mace's most persistent public critics, who has repeatedly characterized her conduct on X, including an August 10, 2026 post calling her CNN interview on Islam evidence of 'a real mental health crisis.'

  • Max Miller

    Republican congressman from Ohio's 7th district and former Trump White House official who became a Mace adversary in July 2026 when she called his ex-wife's domestic abuse allegations 'horrific' and demanded he be investigated and resign if the claims prove true.

  • Russell Fry

    U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th District who unseated an impeachment-vote Republican in 2022 and entered the 2026 special Senate race to succeed the late Lindsey Graham.

  • Staff Turnover in Nancy Mace's Office

    Nancy Mace's congressional and campaign operations have shown a recurring pattern of rapid staff departures: her entire nine-member Washington office turned over within three months in late 2023, a senior campaign consultant resigned publicly in December 2025, and four staff members, including Mace herself, declined to cooperate with the House Ethics Committee's 2025-2026 reimbursement investigation. Mace disputes former staffers' accounts of her management, and has in turn accused some ex-aides of sabotage; those competing accounts are contested and unadjudicated.

  • Rape Shield Enhancement Act: Narrowing the Accused's Defense

    Of all Rep. Nancy Mace's women's-safety bills, the Rape Shield Enhancement Act (H.R. 10094, reintroduced as H.R. 3596) is the one aimed at the rights of the accused themselves. It would direct changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that further restrict what a criminal defendant may introduce about an accuser and narrow the defense's access to an accuser's records. Legal authorities have long recognized that each expansion of rape-shield protection collides with the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause and the accused's right to present a defense; this bill leans into that tension rather than resolving it.

  • Nancy Mace's Bills and the Rights of the Accused

    Rep. Nancy Mace has used her House Oversight chairmanship and her 'leading voice on women's issues' brand to advance a series of measures that strip protections from the accused: a resolution to publish accusations the House Ethics Committee never proved (rejected 357-65), a takedown regime that removes online content on an unverified report, and a bill narrowing what a criminal defendant may show a jury. Named legal and civil-liberties critics, and members of both parties, warn these erode due process and tilt the process against the accused. This page documents those measures first, then the full verified ledger of her women's-safety bills.

  • Congressional Career

    Nancy Mace's tenure representing South Carolina's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, elections, committee work, legislative record, and notable votes from 2021 through the present.

  • Nancy Mace: Overview

    A biographical overview of Nancy Mace, U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district and the first woman to graduate from The Citadel's Corps of Cadets.

  • George Santos

    Former U.S. Representative (R-NY) expelled from the House in 2023 after his biography was exposed as largely fabricated. Rep. Nancy Mace branded his résumé a fabrication, then voted against expelling him, then hired his communications director; by 2026 Santos was publicly urging Mace's staff to turn on her.

  • Cory Mills

    Republican congressman from Florida who became the subject of a public censure and expulsion campaign by Rep. Nancy Mace amid domestic-violence and stolen-valor allegations.

  • Clay Higgins

    U.S. Representative Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana) cast the sole dissenting vote against the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025, citing due-process and witness-protection concerns.

  • Lauren Boebert

    U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado), one of four Republican signers of the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, faced Trump administration pressure to withdraw her support.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene

    U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), one of four Republican signers of the discharge petition for the Epstein Files Transparency Act, who later reportedly resigned amid a feud with the Trump administration over her vote.

  • Ro Khanna

    U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-California) introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act and co-led the bipartisan push to release unredacted files, alongside Nancy Mace and other lawmakers.

  • Thomas Massie

    U.S. Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) filed the congressional discharge petition to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and was one of four Republicans to sign alongside Nancy Mace.

  • Jasmine Crockett

    U.S. Representative for Texas's 30th congressional district (Dallas) and a former civil-rights attorney. As Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, the same committee as Rep. Nancy Mace, she has had several sharp public clashes with Mace, most notably the January 14, 2025 'take it outside' exchange.

  • UAP & the Hearings

    Mace's role in the two House Oversight UAP hearings, the July 26, 2023 exchange that defined the moment, the November 13, 2024 joint hearing she co-chaired, her most striking on-record statements, the bipartisan praise she earned, and the internet reaction that followed.

  • Anna Paulina Luna

    U.S. Representative from Florida (R-FL) and a strong advocate for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) transparency. She has worked with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan legislative efforts to advance government disclosure on the subject.

  • Luis Elizondo

    Former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) who testified before Congress on November 13, 2024 at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena co-chaired by Rep. Nancy Mace.

  • Robert Garcia

    U.S. Representative from California (D-CA) and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. He has partnered with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) oversight and legislative efforts.

  • Tim Burchett

    U.S. Representative from Tennessee (R-TN) and one of the most vocal congressional advocates for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) transparency. He has partnered with Rep. Nancy Mace on bipartisan UAP legislation and congressional hearings.

  • Gabrielle Lipsky

    Communications staffer who was George Santos's spokeswoman, resigned the day after the House Ethics report that preceded his expulsion, and weeks later was hired by Nancy Mace into the same role, amid record turnover in Mace's office.

  • Dan Hanlon

    Dan Hanlon served as chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Mace from 2021 until he was fired in December 2023, and was named in the Office of Congressional Conduct's 2025 reimbursement review as one of four individuals who refused to cooperate with investigators and were recommended for subpoena.

  • Kevin McCarthy

    Former U.S. Representative and 55th Speaker of the House (R-CA) who was removed from the speakership on October 3, 2023, a vote in which Nancy Mace was one of eight Republicans to support removal.

  • David Grusch

    Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and member of the Pentagon's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Task Force who testified before Congress in July 2023 as a whistleblower, claiming the U.S. had recovered non-human biological remains from UAP crash sites.