Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is looking for the censure and “quick elimination” of Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from the House Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, citing a “sequence of alarming moral, authorized, and private misconduct allegations.”
The South Carolina congresswoman despatched a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday, arguing that Mills’ home violence accusations, alleged “conflicts of curiosity,” and “misrepresentations” of navy service are purpose sufficient to kick him out of the committees.
Mace additionally introduced that she authored a decision to power a vote on the House ground to censure the Florida congressman, stating, “These allegations are far too critical to disregard.”
“A Member of Congress accused of assaulting girls, profiting off federal contracts from his seat, and inflating or falsifying his service file has no enterprise anyplace close to national-security committees,” Mace stated in an announcement. “This isn’t about partisan politics, it’s about defending the integrity of this establishment and the security of girls.”
Both her letter to Johnson and her decision referenced the identical allegations towards Mills, citing a February Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) report stating that his girlfriend accused him of grabbing, shoving, and pushing her out of the door of his residence.
“Officers noticed recent bruises on her arm,” Mace wrote. “The girl reportedly let officers hear Mills instruct her to lie in regards to the origin of her bruises. Police decided possible trigger existed for misdemeanor assault and despatched an arrest warrant to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.”
The alleged sufferer walked again her claims quickly after the incident, and the investigation was closed.
“While the non-public matter in query was emotionally charged, there was no bodily altercation,” she instructed NBC News.
Mills’ workplace additionally claimed innocence, saying in an announcement that the congressman “vehemently denies any wrongdoing in any respect, and is assured any investigation will clear this matter shortly.”
In July, a distinct former vital different of Mills — Republican state committeewoman and Miss United States pageant winner Lindsey Langston — accused him of threatening to launch intimate pictures and movies of her and to hurt her future romantic companions. In October, a Florida court docket granted her an order of safety towards Mills.
The choose discovered that Langston “does have an affordable trigger to imagine that she is in imminent hazard of turning into the sufferer of one other act of relationship violence with out an injunction being entered.”
Mills is separated however nonetheless legally married to his spouse, former Trump administration nationwide safety official Rana Al Saadi.
Mace’s decision additionally identified that the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) present in August 2024 that corporations owned by Mills “secured practically $1 million in federal contracts for munitions and weapons whereas he served in Congress, with 94 contracts awarded since January 2024.”
The OCC concluded that “There is substantial purpose to imagine that Rep. Mills might have entered into, held, or loved contracts with federal businesses whereas he was a Member of Congress in violation of House guidelines, requirements of conduct, and federal legislation.”
The decision additionally pointed to stories indicating that considered one of Mills’ corporations, Pacem, has bought munitions to international nations together with Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and Colombia whereas he served on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees, giving him direct oversight of U.S. navy assist and arms gross sales coverage.
Mills’ navy service file was additionally known as into query within the decision, with Mace pointing to a number of service members who served with him who’ve “disputed the account of occasions which fashioned the idea for his 2021 Bronze Star suggestion.”
“Five people who served with Mills, together with two males Mills allegedly saved, disputed Mills was concerned of their rescue or offered life-saving care. One sergeant known as the account a ‘fabrication,’” Mace wrote.
Democrats tried to censure Mills and kick him off the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, however withdrew it after a GOP measure to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) over her recently-revealed communications with Jeffrey Epstein narrowly failed, Axios reported.
Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE), Lance Gooden (R-TX), Dave Joyce (R-OH), voted with Democrats towards the measure to censure Plaskett, whereas Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Jay Obernolte (R-CA), and Dan Meuser (R-PA) voted “current.”
Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) shared her dismay on social media, accusing fellow Republicans of chopping a “backroom deal,” supposedly to guard Mills:
“Tonight, a handful of Republicans took a dive on a vote to strip Stac[e]y Plaskett of her place on House intel due to her ties to Epstein,” she wrote. “They did it to guard a Republican going through his personal ethics points from the same vote. This backroom deal shit is swampy, flawed, and all the time deserves to be known as out.”
Olivia Rondeau is a politics reporter for Breitbart News primarily based in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram.
