Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) denied she’s resigning from Congress after the New York Times reported she is weighing the possibility in the wake of GOP anger over House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) leadership.

Times reporter Annie Karni wrote that the vehemently anti-trans Mace – who is currently running for governor of South Carolina – “has told people she is so frustrated with [Johnson] and sick of the way he has run the House – particularly how women are treated there – that she is planning to huddle with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia next week to discuss following her lead and retiring early from Congress.”

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Greene’s resignation, effective January 5, came after the one-time MAGA loyalist had a string of continued disagreements with the president, largely over government spending and the release of the Epstein Files. After the president started name-calling and promised to endorse a primary challenger against her, Greene stepped away, leaving a manifesto of an explanation.

While lengthy, Greene’s key message was that the Republicans aren’t following through on their priorities and are wasting what little majority they have in the House. In the aftermath, an anonymous senior House Republican told Punchbowl News that “more explosive early resignations are coming.”

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“It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower,” the lawmaker warned. “Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”

Karni’s report in the Times said that many Republicans have grown frustrated with Johnson, but Republican women are particularly angry.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) told Karni there is “an unusually high level of discontent” among House Republicans.

“The overriding issue is the House has not been at the forefront of driving policymaking, or the agenda in Washington,” Kiley explained. “That is naturally going to be frustrating to members who ran for Congress to make an impact on issues they care about.”

Johnson has reportedly angered his party by refusing to call the House into session for an eight-week period during and leading up to the shutdown, and also for, as Karni put it, “the passive role the speaker has played in the redistricting arms race that has spread across the country.”

Others who are worried about their reelection campaigns are upset that he’s dragging his feet on a vote to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Some Republican women are also reportedly angry about the pressure Johnson put on them to remove their names from the discharge petition calling for the release of the Epstein files. Mace, Greene, and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), refused to bend in their decision to sign the petition.

Butt CNN correspondent Manu Raju said Nancy Mace had one word for him when he asked if she was considering resigning: “No.”

Despite positioning herself as a warrior for women, Mace has devoted her time in Congress to waging a vicious campaign against trans women.

She has used transphobia to make herself a household name, elevating her profile with increasingly outrageous anti-trans outbursts. She has, in many ways, become the public face of the Republicans’ crusade to eradicate trans people from all aspects of civic life.

She has lobbed transphobic slurs at a student; shouted slurs during a speech and a House committee meeting; publicly bullied a trans influencer; was booed when discussing a trans activist’s genitals at a public talk; targeted two universities in her state for offering more than two gender options on certain student forms; referred to Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) as “it” and “a man” in a TV news appearance; and called trans people “mentally ill” (even though trans identity isn’t considered a mental illness by any major medical or psychological association).

Mace also persuaded Johnson to introduce a rule banning all trans people from using Capitol restrooms that match their gender identity. She also voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act because it would give some protections to trans inmates.

Mace has also written hundreds of posts on social media attacking trans people, some of which include slurs. Numerous members of Congress have criticized Mace’s “vile” and “disgusting” rhetoric.

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