On a suspense-filled day in Congress, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy stunned some of her colleagues by casting the seventh vote to vacate the chair and oust Speaker McCarthy.
Mace had backed McCarthy back in January when Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and other Republicans forced him to clear a series of votes to become speaker.
On Tuesday, there were murmurs inside the chamber when she announced her surprise vote, making her one of eight Republicans to push him out. She accused McCarthy of breaking his word.
‘You make a promise you should keep it,’ Mace told reporters outside the Capitol. As a fiscal conservative I am angry. As a woman I am deeply frustrated,’ she said.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) voted to vacate the chair. She was one of eight Republicans to do so, in a move that forced the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy
The move by GOP rebels to oust McCarthy, seen here swarmed by reporters after a vote to oust him from the speaker’s chair, helped cast the House into chaos. Republicans were set to meet Tuesday night to try to forge a path forwared
‘It’s not ideological. It’s about having a leader in our nation who will tell the truth, who you can trust,’ she said. ‘I am looking for a speaker who will tell the truth.’
She blasted out a seven-part tweet explaining her position.
‘Today I voted for the Motion to Vacate and remove the Speaker. This isn’t about left vs right. This isn’t about ideology. This is about trust and keeping your word. This is about making Congress do it’s job,’ she wrote in her post on X.
A regular on cable television, Mace said after January 6 that former President Donald Trump’s ‘entire legacy was wiped out.’
Trump at the time called her a ‘grandstanding loser.’
But Mace, whose coastal district includes Charleston and Hilton Head, has veered closer to the MAGA base and has defended Trump, who is facing multiple indictments.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., right, confer in the hallway near the House chamber in late September. She backed a resolution by Gaetz to vacate the chair on Tuesday
‘I promised the Lowcountry I would be an independent voice in Congress. That I would call the balls and strikes and do the right thing regardless of party. The Speaker has not lived up to his word on how the House would operate,’ she wrote.
She blasted McCarthy for the failure to push through individual appropriations bills, which preceded the government shutdown crisis where McCarthy moved a 45-day temporary government funding measure that passed aided by Democratic support.
‘No budget, no separate spending bills until it was too late, a CR which takes spending power out of the hands of the people and puts all the power into the hands of a select few.’
She added: ‘There has also been no action on many issues we care about and were promised. We were promised we would move on women’s issues and legislation to keep our communities safe. Those things never happened … With the current Speaker, this chaos will continue. We need a fresh start so we can get back to the people’s business free of these distractions.’
‘Nancy Mace is the only member of the GOP YOLO caucus,’ wrote Tim Miller of the Bulwark, using the term for You Only Live Once.
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