Nancy Mace Erupts in Fury on House Floor after Dem’s Speech Hits Home

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

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GOP Congresswoman Nancy Mace lost her temper on the House floor on Wednesday. It all started when Mace unleashed a long, vile tirade about transgender Americans. After that, Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, a Democrat, offered some cutting criticism of the absurdity of GOP anti-trans rhetoric. That prompted Mace to fly into a fury and start shouting. We think this is a telling moment: We’re all supposed to just put up with it while the right unleashes nonstop vitriol and hate. But when a Democrat offers admittedly provocative pushback—albeit something that doesn’t come close to routine right wing rhetoric—it’s taken as this enormous affront, as if the Earth has been knocked off its axis. We talked to Representative Jacobs about the exchange, what we can learn from it, why she takes rhetoric like this personally, and how Democrats should navigate the complexities of the overall issue. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:35.3	Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace lost her temper on the House floor on Wednesday during a debate over transgender rights, if debate is the right word for it.
0:40.3	It all started when Mace unleashed a long, vile tirade about trans people on the floor. After that, Congresswoman Sarah Jacobs, a Democrat, went to the floor and offered a cutting
0:46.8	send-up of the absurdity of GOP anti-trans rhetoric. That's what prompted Mace to fly into a fury and start
0:54.0	shouting.
0:55.2	We think this is a telling moment.
0:57.5	We're all supposed to just put up with it while the right unleashes nonstop vitriol and hate about their enemy of the moment.
1:04.5	And then when a Democrat offers some admittedly provocative pushback, yet something that doesn't come close to routine right-wing
1:12.2	rhetoric, it's taken as this enormous affront as if the earth has been knocked off its axis.
1:18.3	Today we're talking to Representative Jacobs about what just happened.
1:22.9	Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, Congresswoman. Thanks for having me.
1:27.3	So can you just set the stage for us?
1:29.4	Representative Mace was in the process of offering amendments to the 26 National Defense Authorization Act.
1:36.2	What would her amendments have done and what's her history on this issue?
1:40.1	Yeah, so she offered a number of amendments that would have prohibited gender affirming care for service members and their dependents, which would have included mental health care, that, you know, would have stopped trans people from being able to use the restroom that they need.
1:57.3	There was a number of other things she was trying to do.
2:00.4	This particular one we were debating
2:01.8	was preventing trans service members from using the bathroom that they need to use. And, you know,
2:08.4	she has over the course of the last few years said some pretty terrible things about trans people,
2:13.6	constantly using the Tisler, using words like deranged, and, you know, all these other, like,
2:21.3	really, you know, emotion evoking terminology.
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