U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, who has represented South Carolina’s 1st district in Congress since 2021, used her social media account on October 2, 2025, to comment on the ongoing government shutdown and its effects on military personnel and federal spending priorities.
In a post published at 21:29 UTC, Mace wrote, “Just your weekly reminder the left cares more about spending taxpayer dollars on giving illegal aliens health care than they do about our military.”
Later that evening at 21:37 UTC, she highlighted the impact of the shutdown on service members in her home state. She stated, “34,000 active duty service members in South Carolina will be going without pay now because of the Democrats’ government shutdown. They’re actively working for our country and yet our country’s Democrat lawmakers have failed them. We owe it to our service members to get the https://t.co/fdvH0StAV8”
At 22:24 UTC the same day, Mace named Democratic leaders in another post: “AOC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries love to talk about ‘protecting democracy.’ Yet here we are in a shutdown they helped cause, with zero accountability and no plan to fix it.”
Nancy Mace began serving in Congress after defeating Joe Cunningham in 2021 and previously served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2018 to 2020. She was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1977 and resides in Charleston. In addition to her political career, Mace graduated from The Citadel with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1999.
