Nancy Mace under investigation by House Ethics Committee

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The Hill's Headlines — March 2, 2026

The Hill's Headlines — March 2, 2026

The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) over allegations that she may have engaged in “improper reimbursement practices” and violated House rules.

The committee wrote in a statement on Monday that they had received a referral from the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC), which reviews allegations of misconduct against members of Congress.

The board of the OCC had written in a report that there is “substantial reason to believe” that Mace had “engaged in improper reimbursement practices,” recommending that the committee further review the allegation. The report alleges that Mace’s requests for reimbursement had exceeded the total of her D.C. property expenses during several months in 2023 and 2024, “amounting to an excess of 9,485.46.”

The chairman and ranking member of the House Ethics Committee wrote in a statement that it had “extended its review of the matter.”

“The Committee notes that the mere fact of conducting further review of a referral, and any mandatory disclosure of such further review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee,” the statement says. 

The Washington Post had also reported in 2024 that Mace, “who co-owns a $1,649,000 Capitol Hill townhouse she purchased in 2021 with her then-fiancé, Patrick Bryant, expensed a total of $27,817 in 2023, an average of more than $2,300 a month,” according to congressional data. She had expensed more than $3,000 for lodging in January, March and May, the Post reported. 

Mace claimed in a statement then that she had incurred more than $100,000 in lodging expenses in D.C. and had received about $29,000 after taxes in reimbursements. 

“Do the math,” Mace said in her statement. “Bryant is terrified he might go to jail. And if he does, my female constituents will be safer for it. This just goes to show how broken the system is when a predator can viciously go after his victims in this way and is permitted to do so regardless of the facts.”

Mace wrote on the social platform X on Monday that she is not taking the ethics complaint “seriously.”

“Members of Congress can sexually harass their employees until they light themselves on fire and die; Members of Congress can sit on House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees and allegedly do arms deals AND allegedly beat women; nobody cares. ‘Let the process play out’ they say… But a conservative woman, calling out those who do wrong? Well, let’s hang her. Have at it,” she said in a follow-up tweet.

The Hill reached out to Mace’s office for comment.

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