Nancy Mace repeatedly shouts anti-trans slur in House hearing: 'I don't really care‘

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Mace listed off a slew of government expenditures, when Ranking Member Gerald Connolly took issue with her use of the word “t*****.’ “The gentlelady has used a phrase that is considered a slur in the LGBTQ community and the transgender community,” he said, before being interrupted by the GOP Representative. “I’m not being counseled by some guy over this.” But Committee Chair James Comer, a fellow Republican, dismissed the remark and said he was not “up to date” on his “LGBTQ terminology.” Mace’s communications director Gabrielle Lipsky told The Independent, “the only thing the Left has going for them is political correctness because they are so wrong on everything.” “So far, the President Donald Trump White House has exposed their failures and abuses of our federal government, and we are determined to keep going,” she continued. “Maybe the Left should start worrying about how their failures impact the American people, the national deficit, and Western values instead of obsessing over ‘mean words.’” Connolly isn’t the only one concerned by Mace’s outburst. “Nancy Mace once seemed like one of the more reasonable Republicans given her stance on reproductive issues,” Gray wrote.