Congresswoman Reveals Odd Office Layout Amid Reports She’s ‘Short-Circuiting’
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) pointed out a curious feature of her political home base as she boasted about her dual political and interior decorating philosophies Tuesday on social media.
“You know what you won’t find in my office? A desk. Or a chief of staff,” the on-again-off-again ally of President Donald Trump wrote alongside a two-and-a-half-minute video of her Capitol Hill hub.
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As she bragged about having “a very flat organization,” Mace made it clear she meant both literally and figuratively — revealing a cavernous room with just a few clusters of furniture.
“We have an open office with all day interaction and collaboration between my employees,” she wrote beside the clip, where she showed off one of the desks in the room, next to which she called her “ledge” (as in legislative) “pit.”
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In her X post, Mace likened having a chief of staff to having “a single point of failure,” saying she “didn’t love it” and that now her top employees “report directly to me.”
Mace’s post comes in the wake of a New York magazine exposé where current and former staffers expressed concern about her increasingly erratic behavior, as well as allegations of excessive drinking and cannabis use.
“We were scared of her,” a former aide said in the piece. “She would make staffers cry. She would threaten to fire them, take their money away, not give them raises, not to give them days off, religious days.”
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“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere,” another told the magazine of the congresswoman, who recently broke ranks with D.C.’s main MAGA faction over the Department of Justice’s reluctance to release documents related to its investigations into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
No matter the furniture layout or office atmosphere, it seems Mace has trouble making people stay in her political orbit.
According to the congressional database Legistorm, she had one of the highest staff turnover rates in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2024.
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