Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina introduced a resolution Monday evening to expel fellow Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida from the U.S. House of Representatives, just as Mills was reportedly drafting his own measure to remove Mace. The extraordinary intra-party clash marks a new low in a months-long conflict between two members of the same conference, and it arrives at a moment when the House can least afford to lose seats.
Mace announced the move on X, writing: "We just introduced a resolution to EXPEL Cory Mills from the U.S. House of Representatives." She accused Mills of lying about his military service, domestic violence, and profiting from federal contracts while serving in Congress. Mills did not respond to the Daily Caller's request for comment before publication.
Mills, meanwhile, has already drafted a counter-resolution targeting Mace, NOTUS reported. His measure is expected to reference, among other incidents, an exchange between Mace and TSA officials at Charleston International Airport. He has not formally introduced the resolution, but its existence signals the dispute has moved well past the war-of-words stage.
The Mace-Mills conflict did not materialize overnight. It traces back at least to September, when Mills was one of only four House Republicans to oppose a Mace-sponsored resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar. That vote drew attention and appeared to harden the divide between the two lawmakers.
By November 2025, Mace had moved to censure Mills directly and forced a separate vote to strip him from the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. Most House Republicans voted to block the committee-removal effort, and the censure push stalled after the House Ethics Committee announced a formal investigation into Mills just hours before he was set to face the censure resolution.
The Ethics Committee investigation, Fox News reported, was opened in November 2025 and involves allegations of "sexual misconduct and/or dating violence." The committee told the Daily Caller it had "no comment" on the current status of the probe.
A December 2024 report from the Office of Congressional Ethics had already suggested Mills may have violated House rules by potentially retaining federal contracts while in office. That report added a financial dimension to the misconduct allegations that were already swirling around the Florida congressman.
Mace has not been shy about cataloging her accusations. In a statement to the Daily Caller, she laid them out plainly:
"Cory Mills lied about his military service, has been accused of beating women, has a restraining order against him, and has allegedly been stuffing his own pockets with federal contracts while sitting in Congress. As a survivor, I will always stand up and right the wrongs of others. He is only coming after me because he knows he's next."
The restraining order Mace referenced was reportedly filed by Lindsey Langston, the 2024 Miss United States winner and a former girlfriend of Mills. Langston alleged Mills threatened to release explicit videos of her. The Blaze and independent journalist Roger Sollenberger have both previously covered allegations surrounding Mills.
The Washington Examiner reported that Mace described the evidence against Mills as "overwhelming," citing allegations of "beating women and telling them to lie about it, cyberstalking women, lying about his military service, and profiting off his seat." The Ethics Committee investigation reportedly also encompasses campaign finance violations and misuse of congressional resources.
Mills has been linked to other controversies as well. He allegedly fell behind on rent for a luxury Washington, D.C., penthouse where monthly payments exceeded $20,800. And the article noted he was reportedly married in 2014 by a cleric at a Virginia mosque, a detail that has drawn scrutiny in conservative media circles.
Mace is no stranger to headlines herself. In May, she displayed nude images of herself during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing, alleging they had been taken and shared without her consent. She accused her ex-fiancé of secretly recording her and other women, and she criticized South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson for what she called a failure to prosecute alleged sex crimes tied to the incident. Mace is reportedly running for governor against Wilson.
The reported Mills draft resolution is expected to reference the Charleston airport exchange, in which Mace allegedly confronted TSA officials. NOTUS reported that Mace alleged security agents were not ready for her arrival and that the situation left her vulnerable. The full details of what Mills plans to include remain unclear.
The broader context matters. Congress has seen a recent wave of misconduct-driven departures. Former Reps. Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales both resigned last week amid allegations of misconduct from former staffers. The push to expel Swalwell had been building for weeks before his departure.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has not publicly weighed in on the Mace-Mills standoff. The Daily Caller reached out to Johnson's office but did not receive a response before publication. Mace addressed him directly on X, writing: "Mr. Speaker, @SpeakerJohnson, why are we continuing to protect this monster?"
Newsmax reported that Johnson has said the Ethics Committee should complete its report before the House takes action, a position that suggests leadership is in no rush to force a floor confrontation. Expelling a member requires a two-thirds vote, a threshold that makes success unlikely without bipartisan support and a completed ethics finding.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna offered a more direct standard. She told Fox News Digital: "If there's evidence of criminal misconduct and wrongdoing, I hold the same standard for every member of Congress, whether they're a Democrat or Republican."
That principle, equal accountability regardless of party, is the one that ought to govern here. The Swalwell saga showed what happens when a party protects its own for too long. Criminal investigations and public disgrace followed, and Democrats paid a political price for their slowness to act.
Republicans would do well to learn from that example rather than repeat it. The Ethics Committee investigation into Mills has been open since at least November 2025. If the allegations are as serious as Mace and the Office of Congressional Ethics report suggest, domestic violence, stolen valor, self-dealing on federal contracts, then the committee owes the House a timely conclusion, not indefinite silence.
With the House majority razor-thin, every seat matters. That reality creates an obvious incentive to look the other way, to let ethics probes drag on, to treat serious allegations as mere distractions. Mace, whatever her own political motivations, is at least forcing the question into the open.
The New York Post noted that Mills has argued lawmakers should wait for due process before taking expulsion action, a fair point on its face. But due process requires that the process actually move. Voters in Florida and South Carolina did not send their representatives to Washington to wage personal vendettas or to sit under indefinite clouds of unresolved misconduct allegations.
The pattern of misconduct scandals in this Congress, from Swalwell's collapse to Gonzales's exit to the Mace-Mills feud, points to a deeper institutional failure. The ethics process moves too slowly. Leadership hedges too long. And the public is left watching members of Congress accuse each other of serious crimes while committees issue "no comment."
Mace posted another message on X the same day, calling Mills "the worst kind of pond scum in Congress" and noting that he "chose to come after me days after my father passed away, a real war hero." The personal bitterness is unmistakable. But personal bitterness does not make the underlying allegations less serious, or the Ethics Committee's silence more acceptable.
The question now is whether Republican leadership will let the ethics process reach a conclusion before the next election cycle renders it moot. The Swalwell precedent showed that waiting too long to act does not make a scandal go away. It makes the party that waited look complicit.
Republicans spent years rightly demanding accountability from Democrats who shielded their own. The standard does not change when the name on the door has an R next to it.