Nancy Mace on U.S. Politics

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Statement history

2 statements on this page. Dates: September 13, 2026 to September 16, 2026

2 matching statements. Dates: September 13, 2026 to September 16, 2026

2 published statements. Dates: September 13, 2026 to September 16, 2026

Condemned

1 published statement. Dates: September 13, 2026

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 13, 2026

Nancy Mace

Role at the time: U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, replying on her verified X account

September 13, 2026Condemned

Statement summary

Replying to Rep. Ro Khanna's call to pause recursive self-improving AI and impose criminal and civil liability, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina rejected the proposal on competitiveness grounds, saying China will not pause and will eat the United States' lunch. The reply is the whole of her statement and offers no further reasoning. Her prediction about Chinese conduct is an assertion, not an established finding.

“China will not pause. China will eat our lunch.”

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Nancy Mace: "China will not pause. China will eat our lunch."

First-party reply from Rep. Nancy Mace's verified X account on September 13, 2026, answering Rep. Ro Khanna's call to pause recursive self-improving AI, which itself quote-posted Dario Amodei's essay announcement. The reply is the whole of her statement; she offers no further reasoning in it.

Why we used this label

The case's fixed reference point is the proposition that Washington should impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI. Mace rejects it, treating a pause as self-defeating because a strategic competitor would not reciprocate. That is the competitiveness argument this dossier already records from Mike Johnson (729), who opposed a moratorium because "China will overlap us," and from Trump (556, 572), and all are classified condemns. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional; it loses because she names no safeguard she would accept and attaches no condition, offering only the objection.

Read statement Should Washington impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI?

Defended or excused

1 published statement. Dates: September 16, 2026

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 16, 2026

Nancy Mace

Role at the time: U.S. representative for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, posting on X

September 16, 2026Defended or excused

Statement summary

Quote-posting LindellTV’s video of Rep. Ilhan Omar being questioned about the investigation and the allegation that she married her brother, Rep. Nancy Mace wrote “One word: Deport.”

“One word: Deport.”

Read the original postRep. Nancy Mace’s X post quote-posting LindellTV’s video of Rep. Ilhan Omar · Nancy MacePost text (quote-post of LindellTV’s video).

Rep. Nancy Mace’s post from her official account, published at 8:30 p.m. EDT on September 16, 2026.

Why we used this label

The case’s fixed reference point is the Trump administration’s public accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother to obtain immigration benefits, together with its announced federal criminal investigation of her. Mace answers Omar’s denial by calling for her deportation, which treats the accusation as grounds for removal and presses it. The closest competing label is mixed_or_conditional; it loses because the post attaches no condition or reservation.

Read statement Should Trump administration officials publicly accuse Rep. Ilhan Omar of immigration fraud?