Nancy Mace Accuses Former Staffers of ‘Sabotaging the Office,’ Spying On Her, and Mismanaging $1M — One Retorts ‘She’s Clearly Unwell’

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) revealed in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail that she believed her former staffers spied on her, mismanaged close to $1 million from the office budget, and “threatened the interns.”

In the interview with Daily Mail‘s Morgan Phillips published on Friday, Mace launched several accusations towards people who used to work for her, outlining several ways they “sabotag[ed]” her office and described “a massive invasion of my privacy”:

They were signing my name on documents they didn’t have permission to do — one of them submerged their electronic devices under water so we couldn’t access their files. They deleted files, some of them deleted files off our server, so there’d be no documentation for the new staff that were coming in.

She also told Phillips:

We had another former staffer that would leak the names of the new employees we were hiring so that negative stories could be written about them.

We even had interns quit because old staff threatened the interns, threatened that they would never get a job on the hill if they worked in my office.

She also accused former staffers of hacking into her devices:

Literally, they could see where I was at all times. They could see my kids’ calendars, my doctors’ appointments, my medical information. The stories I have from some of my former staff are horrific, and were a massive invasion of my privacy.

But it wasn’t just Mace’s personal life that the congresswoman claimed was affected:

“We’re finding thousands of dollars in bills they didn’t pay,” the congresswoman went on. “Paperwork that didn’t get filed that was supposed to.”

Mace was irate to find out that her staff had left close to $1 million on the table in her office budget. “It was $400,000 in 2022 and close to half a million in 2023,” she said.

“It’s our job to manage our office, be fiscally responsible, but to use everything we have to communicate our constituent services,” she said.

However, some of those former staffers not only deny the allegations, they refute the idea that anything was “hacked” — because Mace granted them access herself: “Everything the staff had access to was granted by her.” One staffer said:

She had a personal calendar, a political calendar, and official calendar. All three of those calendars were managed and shared with senior staff so that we could go about the daily operations. No one hacked her accounts. She set them all up.

She routinely would try to revoke access, be like “you can no longer see my calendar” for a couple of weeks. And you know what, we couldn’t do our jobs.

A different staffer also retorted: “This seems to be stemming from paranoia and trust issues. She’s clearly unwell and I hope she gets help.”

Reports surfaced earlier this year about the unusually high (read: complete) turnover rate at Mace’s office. Her former chief of staff Dan Hanlon, whom she fired, even filed to primary her in her South Carolina congressional district.