Nancy Mace recently aired her dissatisfaction with the current GOP leadership, but she has made it clear that rumors of her following in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s footsteps and leaving Congress are unfounded.

Mace, who has announced her candidacy for the governor’s seat in South Carolina, was reacting to a New York Times piece. This report suggested that she and Greene were set to meet in the coming week to discuss the possibility of Mace retiring, similar to Greene’s recent departure.

In a strongly worded statement, Mace expressed her grievances: “I loathe how slow Congress moves. I loathe we haven’t delivered on President Trump’s agenda. I loathe serious lawmakers aren’t taken seriously. I loathe the press making stories up. I loathe the politics of lies. Nowhere did I say I was retiring.”

This narrative has been echoed in other media outlets, including NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, highlighting the discontent among prominent Republican women with House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Mace didn’t shy away from expressing her frustration with Johnson, pointing out a recent effort: “I signed a discharge petition to ban stock trading today. Why does something so easy ethically and morally to support take forcing it down the throats of leadership when it’s just common sense? Members of Congress shouldn’t line their pockets with insider trading.” Her remarks underline a growing tension within the party as calls for ethical reforms clash with leadership practices.

However, the Congresswoman reiterated that she wasn’t leaving Congress anytime soon. 

‘My retirement is a BIG FAT NO. This clickbait thing has got to stop. No one trusts the politicians spreading these rumors.’

Her comments came after the Times reported Mace has grown sick of Johnson’s treatment of women in their caucus that a meeting with Greene on quitting was coming next week.

Nancy Mace expressed her frustration with GOP leadership but denied rumors she would fully go the Marjorie Taylor Greene route and quit Congress

The story was part of a larger narrative that several high profile women in the Republican Party are not happy with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

The NBC News story said that the pair were merely meeting to ‘talk about their shared frustrations.’

Both NBC and the Times pointed out that Mace and Greene, as well as Anna Paulina Luna and Elise Stefanik were angry with Johnson.

Earlier Wednesday, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Stefanik directly hit out at Johnson, saying: ‘He certainly wouldn’t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow.’

She cited her frustration with how the party handled the record-long government shutdown and recent underperformances by Republicans in special elections that showed Johnson is ‘a political novice.’ 

‘Whereas Kevin McCarthy was a political animal, Mike Johnson is a political novice and, boy, does it show, with the House Republicans underperforming for the first time in the Trump era.’

She also suggested Donald Trump could do without the speaker, adding that the president ‘is the leader of the Republicans and he certainly doesn’t need Mike Johnson.’ 

Stefanik, who herself is running for governor in New York, has been feuding with Johnson over a provision she wanted included in the annual defense-authorization bill.

Johnson claimed he wasn’t aware of the problem and would handle it, expressing confusion at the anger. 

Mace’s comments came after the Times reported Mace has grown sick of Johnson’s treatment of women in their caucus that a meeting with Greene on quitting was coming next week

‘I don’t exactly know why Elise won’t just call me. This wasn’t even on my radar.’ 

Stefanik later wrote to social media: ‘I had a very productive conversation with Speaker Johnson last night and I shared my views that House Republicans need to focus on delivering results to the American people.’ 

Luna, a Florida Congresswoman, was frustrated with Johnson’s refusal to schedule a vote on her bill to ban members from trading stocks, which Mace supports. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment. 

The infighting comes after the unexpected closeness of a single-digit race in a Republican stronghold raised serious questions about the GOP’s brand nationwide and their voter enthusiasm heading into 2026. 

Significant Democratic electoral victories last month in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Georgia drew substantial media attention and money to Tennessee in the final weeks of the special election. 

Democrats are sure to view this close call as a sign to play heavily in districts that have long been considered safe GOP strongholds in the new year’s midterms.

Johnson’s majority is still on thin ice with the imminent departure of Greene, who will resign her seat in January.  

Elise Stefanik, a New York Congresswoman, is also not happy with Johnson

Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Congresswoman, was frustrated with Johnson’s refusal to schedule a vote on her bill to ban members from trading stocks, which Mace supports

The Georgia Republican put an end to her Congressional career in a 10-minute video posted to social media last month that laid bare her frustrations with Congress, the party and Donald Trump. 

Greene announced she will resign from Congress at the beginning of 2026 following her split from longtime ally Trump.

In a lengthy statement and 10-minute video, she branded the president ‘hateful’ over his decision to retract his endorsement of her, a move which saw him dismiss Greene as a ‘ranting lunatic’.

The Georgia lawmaker cited a growing disgust with the political establishment in Washington and her fight for the release of the so-called Epstein files, which formed much of her feud with Trump.

She raged against the ‘political industrial complex’ which she claimed uses Americans as ‘pawns in an endless game of division’.

Greene said that it would be unfair for her ‘sweet little district’ to ‘endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for’ and even added that ‘Republicans will likely lose the midterms’.

Greene went on to claim she has ‘always been despised in Washington, DC, and just never fit in’.

The Republican also said that she was leaving to spend more time with her family amid constant death threats she claimed she received in the wake of her clash with with the president. She said her last day would be January 5, 2026. 

Greene put an end to her Congressional career in a 10-minute video posted to social media last Monday that laid bare her frustrations with Congress, the party and Donald Trump

Greene also expressed profound frustration with her own party’s inability to get anything done despite controlling the presidency and both houses of Congress in 2025. 

‘Almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined, we endured an eight week shutdown wrongly resulting in the House not working for the entire time, and we are entering campaign season which means all courage leaves and only safe campaign re-election mode is turned on,’ she said. 

Greene’s departure will cap five tumultuous years in Congress. 

She was first an outsider, then briefly at the center of power during House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s reign. 

Trump’s return to the White House could have heralded a new era of clout in Washington, but Greene’s simmering discontent led to a split with the president.