GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Accuses Ex-Staffers Of ‘Sabotaging Her’ After Most Of Her Staff Quits

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) has accused her former staffers of “sabotaging” her after most of them resigned in recent months, complaining about her erratic working style.

In February, Mace’s former aides publicly complained about their time working for her.

One former staffer told The Daily Beast that the South Carolina representative “says nothing publicly without her consultants or senior staffers telling her to but takes credit for everything.” Another ex-staffer mentioned that she is considered a “joke” in Congress.

Most of the representative’s staff quit, leaving her struggling to find new employees.

Mace’s office has experienced a 100% turnover since November 1, 2023.

The representative described several ways in which her former staffers had sabotaged her.

“I knew that they were sabotaging the office for a while,” Mace told the Daily Mail. “I didn’t know to the extent that they were doing it. They were signing my name on documents they didn’t have permission to do — one of them submerged their electronic devices underwater, so we couldn’t access their files. They deleted files, some of them deleted files off our server, so there’d be no documentation for the new staff that were coming in.”

Nine of Mace’s staff members left her office between December 2023 and February 2024.

In January, her ex-chief of staff, Dan Hanlon, began a short-lived bid to primary her in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District but ceased his campaign two months later.

“We had another former staffer that would leak the names of the new employees we were hiring so that negative stories could be written about them,” Mace mentioned. “We even had interns quit because old staff threatened the interns, threatened that they would never get a job on [Capitol Hill] if they worked in my office.”

She also accused ex-staffers of hacking into her devices.

“Literally, they could see where I was at all times,” Mace asserted. “They could see my kids’ calendars, my doctors’ appointments, my medical information. The stories I have from some of my former staff are horrific and were a massive invasion of my privacy. We’re finding thousands of dollars in bills they didn’t pay. Paperwork that didn’t get filed that was supposed to.”

Upon discovering that her staff left nearly $1 million unspent in her office budget, Mace was angered. 

“It was $400,000 in 2022 and close to half a million in 2023,” she stated. “It’s our job to manage our office and be fiscally responsible, but to use everything we have to communicate our constituent services.”

Mace declared that this money “could have gone toward salaries, bonuses—especially if you’re entry-level. It’s really hard to get by in D.C. It was really outrageous,” she claimed.

Many of the ex-staffers have come forward to deny Mace’s charges. 

Mace is known for creating controversies and making outrageous statements. 

In February, she called former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a “complete loser” for not contacting her before joining the vote to oust him.