Nancy Mace grabbed her team, hopped in a van and raced back to Washington in her pajamas Wednesday to vote on President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" — driving through stormy weather after scores of flights into D.C. were canceled.
Mace, who is currently weighing a run for governor of South Carolina, knows that she needs the president's endorsement to win in a state that overwhelmingly supported him in 2024. So the mad dash, and the show she put on social media about it all, makes sense politically.
But while the audience of one in the White House will appreciate the effort, many constituents back home may be far less pleased.
That's because the Trump megabill forces states to carry part of the cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, if they have high rates of overpaying or underpaying recipients.
And Mace sounds ready to throw some pain in the direction of her home state in the name of fighting "waste, fraud and abuse."
"So under some of the provisions, our state may have to pay fines of upwards of $300 million if we don't get the fraudulent payments for SNAP under control," she told The Independent.
The same goes for Medicaid.
"But if you're talking about able-bodied workers," she continued, "my policy is, if you're an able-bodied person and you want Medicaid? Get a f***ing job."
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