Mace condemns Jeffries using the phrase ‘House Republican Civil War’
Jenny Goldsberry
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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) disagreed with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who painted the GOP as being in a “civil war.”
Both representatives appeared on ABC’s This Week Sunday for back-to-back live interviews. Jeffries was on first and claimed that the “distracting” impeachment inquiry launched earlier this week came as a result of what he called a “House Republican Civil War.”
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Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week
“Let’s be clear: House Republicans are in the middle of a civil war,” Jeffries said. “This is an illegitimate impeachment inquiry. It’s a product of the House Republican Civil War. Why in the world — in the middle of all the issues that we are trying to tackle, all of the problems that we are trying to solve on behalf of the American people, trying to do the business of the American people.”
Jeffries called for the impeachment inquiry to end because it is “distracting.”
“The House Republican Civil War is hurting hard-working American taxpayers and limiting our ability to be able to solve problems,” Jeffries went on.
Mace appeared immediately after to call out the House Minority Leader for using “divisive language.”
“Using the word — the phrase ‘civil war’ over and over again in an interview, if that were a Republican, there would be outrage on the Left,” Mace said. “So I find it a little bit hypocritical that that is the divisive language that he used in his interview.”
“If Democrats and, quite frankly, Republicans wanted to put people over politics, they would not have joined hands earlier this year to add $18.8 trillion to the debt [ceiling deal], which is saddling middle America,” Mace went on.
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Back in 2019, while acting as Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced then-President Donald Trump‘s first impeachment inquiry before calling for a vote. Earlier this week, Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) followed suit and announced an inquiry against President Joe Biden before a vote. At the time, McCarthy cited what he called Pelosi’s “precedent” as the reason he did so.
The impeachment inquiry that McCarthy launched will examine Biden’s involvement in his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, along with other Biden family members.