Rep. Nancy Mace moved Monday to force fellow Republican Cory Mills out of the House, introducing an expulsion resolution that accuses the Florida congressman of domestic violence, stolen valor, and profiteering from federal contracts while serving in office.
The South Carolina Republican framed the effort as a last resort after earlier attempts to discipline Mills failed. Mace said she had previously tried to censure Mills and strip him of his committee assignments, but both parties blocked those efforts.
The resolution lands in the middle of a broader ethics reckoning on Capitol Hill. Three House members have already resigned in recent weeks, and Mace's push against Mills now tests whether the chamber will hold one of its own accountable, or wait for the Ethics Committee to finish its work first.
Mace did not mince words. In a statement, the congresswoman laid out a broad set of accusations against Mills, as Breitbart reported:
"The swamp has protected Cory Mills for far too long and we are done letting it slide. We tried to censure him and strip him from his committee assignments. Both parties blocked it, but we are not backing down."
She described the evidence against Mills as "overwhelming," accusing him of "beating women and telling them to lie about it, cyberstalking women, lying about his military service, and profiting off his seat."
Mace's resolution specifically cites allegations of falsely representing his military service, sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations, and illegal activity involving federal contracts while serving in Congress. Mills has not been criminally charged in connection with any of these allegations.
On social media, Mace went further, writing that she did not come to Congress "to watch powerful people abuse women and cover it up," Newsmax reported.
"Any Member who votes to keep him here is voting to protect a woman beater and a fraud. He needs to be expelled immediately."
She also posted a warning directed at Mills himself, stating: "Cory, your days are numbered. Start packing."
Mills rejected the effort and pointed to the House Ethics Committee investigation already underway. He told reporters he believes the process should be allowed to run its course.
"I personally think that you should allow due process. The precedence that she's setting right now is that you only have to be investigated, and she's under investigation. So I think that, by her own admission, she's kind of also saying that she should be expelled as well."
That counterattack carries a factual basis. The House Ethics Committee has been investigating Mace since last year over allegations that she improperly collected reimbursements for lodging expenses. Neither investigation has produced public findings yet.
Mills's reference to Mace's own ethics probe raises a fair procedural question: if an ongoing investigation is sufficient grounds for expulsion, the standard could sweep in more members than Mace intends. A spokesperson for Mills did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the New York Post.
The dueling expulsion resolutions between Mace and Mills have turned what began as an ethics referral into a full-blown intra-party confrontation.
The House Ethics Committee opened its probe into Mills in November 2025. Fox News reported that the committee described its investigation as involving "sexual misconduct and/or dating violence." The committee has yet to release any findings.
That timeline matters. Mace first tried to censure Mills and remove him from his committee assignments around the same time. When that effort failed, blocked, she says, by members of both parties, the allegations were referred to the Ethics Committee. Months later, with no public report from the committee, Mace escalated to an expulsion resolution.
GOP leadership has so far urged patience. Fox News reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson has said the chamber should wait for the Ethics Committee's report before taking further action. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told Fox News Digital that she holds "the same standard for every member of Congress, whether they're a Democrat or Republican," if evidence of criminal misconduct emerges.
The tension between Mace's demand for immediate action and leadership's preference for institutional process reflects a familiar friction within the House Republican conference, which has struggled to manage internal divisions while protecting a razor-thin majority.
Mace's resolution arrives just a week after former Reps. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, and Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, both resigned over separate allegations of sexual misconduct. Those departures have already narrowed the chamber's ranks and focused public attention on ethics enforcement.
The Washington Examiner reported that the push against Mills is part of a larger ethics reckoning that has seen three members resign, increasing scrutiny on those who remain under investigation. Whether the House has the appetite for yet another fight, this time over expulsion, which requires a two-thirds vote, remains an open question.
Expulsion is an extraordinary remedy. The House has used it only a handful of times in its history. The two-thirds threshold means Mace would need broad bipartisan support to succeed, a steep climb given that both parties blocked her earlier censure attempt.
The motion Mace filed is not privileged, Just The News reported, though she could move to force a House vote soon. Whether Republican leadership allows that vote, or works to delay it until the Ethics Committee finishes, will say a great deal about how seriously the conference takes the allegations.
These kinds of internal conflicts have become a recurring feature of the current Congress. From collapsed rule votes to funding standoffs, House Republicans have repeatedly found themselves divided when unity matters most.
Mace, who has publicly identified as a survivor of sexual assault, cast her effort in personal terms. She wrote on social media: "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."
That framing gives the resolution an emotional dimension that goes beyond standard procedural disputes. But emotion alone does not clear the two-thirds bar. Mace will need facts, and the Ethics Committee's findings, whenever they arrive, to persuade colleagues who may be reluctant to set a precedent for expelling a member before any formal investigation concludes.
Mills, for his part, denies wrongdoing. He has not been criminally charged. And his argument about due process is not without merit: the Ethics Committee exists precisely to investigate allegations and present findings before the full House acts.
The broader pattern of Republican divisions makes this fight harder to contain. Every public clash between GOP members gives Democrats an opening and makes the majority's governing agenda harder to advance.
Several questions remain unanswered. The Ethics Committee has not said when it will release findings in the Mills probe. Leadership has not committed to scheduling a floor vote on the expulsion resolution. And no one has explained why the earlier censure effort failed or which members in each party blocked it.
If the House does vote, the two-thirds requirement means the resolution almost certainly fails without significant Democratic support, and Democrats have their own incentives for letting Republicans fight among themselves.
For voters in Florida's district and across the country, the spectacle of two Republican members publicly trying to expel each other raises a basic question about House Republican priorities. Are they governing, or are they settling scores?
The allegations against Mills are serious. If the evidence is as overwhelming as Mace claims, the Ethics Committee should release its findings without further delay. And if it isn't, then forcing an expulsion vote before the investigation concludes is the kind of precedent that comes back to haunt the people who set it.
Congress has rules for a reason. The question is whether anyone in this House still has the discipline to follow them.