Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace will introduce a resolution Wednesday to censure her fellow GOP colleague, Rep. Cory Mills of Florida, in a high-profile example of Republican infighting on the House floor.
Mace’s resolution is expected to remove Mills from the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. The resolution will be privileged, according to a source familiar, meaning House GOP leadership will have to hold a vote on the matter by Friday.
Mace sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Wednesday requesting that Mills be removed from his committee roles.
The move comes after House Democrats introduced a retaliatory censure measure against Mills on Tuesday in response to a Republican led-effort to formally rebuke Democratic U.S. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett. Republicans have excoriated the nonvoting delegate for consulting with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a 2019 congressional hearing.
Democrats later withdrew their resolution following Republicans failing to secure the votes to censure Plaskett and remove her from her seat on the House Intelligence Committee.
Mace and several conservative Republicans railed against their conference for allowing the Plaskett censure vote to fail. The group of conservatives alleged that some Republicans cut a deal to save Plaskett in an effort to prevent a vote on censuring Mills.
“Another backroom deal so Cory Mills can’t get censored for Stolen Valor,” Mace wrote on X Wednesday. “This. Is. Washington.”
Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna suggested that Mills should not seek reelection in a post on X Wednesday.
Mace’s resolution is expected to touch on various allegations against Mills, including domestic violence and stolen valor, based on her past comments on the Congressman. The Florida Republican has strongly denied any instance of impropriety.
Mace, who is running for South Carolina governor, previously threatened to censure Mills in September. He and a handful of Republicans helped tank a censure resolution offered by Mace that would have removed Democratic Minnesota Rep. Illhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs committee
Mills defended his vote to save Omar from a House censure, arguing that she should be investigated rather than face a formal rebuke by her colleagues.
A spokesperson for Mills did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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