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Congresswoman Nancy Mace’s sudden move to introduce a resolution to expel Representative Cory Mills has thrown the Republican conference into a chaotic, headline-chasing scramble that plays right into the hands of our enemies and the left-wing media. Mace’s office framed the measure as a necessary step after reporting and allegations that call into question Mills’s conduct and military record, but this is an extraordinary action that deserves scrutiny before the House sets a new low threshold for tossing out an elected colleague.
The charges circulating — including questions about Mills’s military service, alleged misconduct, and the reopened Ethics Committee review — are serious and should be investigated thoroughly, not weaponized for political score-keeping. Yet the optics of one Republican moving to expel another weeks after the Ethics panel opened an inquiry raises alarms about who is running the GOP’s playbook and whether internal vendettas will override due process.
Meanwhile, on the international stage President Trump’s hardline posture toward Iran has forced a much-needed reckoning with hostile regimes that have long preyed on Western weakness, and Americans are watching every deadline and ceasefire with bated breath. Reports of renewed attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and an uncertain ceasefire show that decisive leadership — not dithering — is what keeps the world from sliding into chaos, and the administration’s willingness to press Iran is exactly the posture many patriotic Americans demanded.
Back at home, the Trump administration’s plan to shift defaulted federal student loans from the Education Department to the Treasury is a common-sense reform that strips power from an out-of-control bureaucracy and gets tough on chronic nonpayment. Handing responsibility for badly managed defaulted accounts to a more accountable agency and ultimately reducing Education Department control is a win for taxpayers and for restoring accountability to federal programs.
Conservatives should cheer strong foreign policy and sensible bureaucratic reforms, but we should also demand unity and prudence inside our own ranks; this is no time for headline-hungry theatrics that fracture the right before the next battle. If Republicans are going to clean house, do it through due process and with an eye toward winning — not settling scores in public while the media feasts. The choice is clear: stand together behind bold national security and fiscal responsibility, or watch Washington’s swamp swallow the movement that sent us to power.
