The House of Representatives is on an ethics purge—and one of the next potential castoffs is Rep. Cory Mills (R, Fla.).
Rep. Nancy Mace, (R, S.C.) introduced a resolution on Monday to expel fellow Republican Mills, whom the House Ethics Committee is investigating for earlier allegations of financial and sexual misconduct. Mills has denied the allegations.
“The swamp has protected Cory Mills for far too long and we are done letting it slide,” Mace said in her statement, adding: “Any Member who votes to keep him here is voting to protect a woman beater and a fraud. He needs to be expelled immediately.”
Growing calls to remove Mills follow the resignations of former lawmakers Eric Swalwell (D, Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R, Texas) earlier this month, both of whom were hounded by sexual misconduct allegations and were pressured by their House colleagues to leave office ahead of imminent expulsion votes.
Mills is not the only Florida lawmaker facing expulsion: the House is expected to vote on expelling Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D, Fla.) this week following sanction recommendations from the House Ethics Committee related to allegations of financial misconduct.
But Mills, according to NOTUS, is weighing fighting back by drafting an expulsion resolution against Mace, who is under investigation over allegations of improper reimbursement practices.
“I don’t even fall into the category of Swalwell or Gonzales,” Mills told NewsNation last week, amid the possibility of expulsion. “One, I’m not married, so there’s one thing. Two, I’ve never sexually harassed and/or had any complaints by any staffers or interns on the Hill. It’s just not even a fair comparison.” (Mills said in court proceedings in 2025 that he had been trying to end his previous marriage for years.)
Mace fired back at Mills on CNN, saying that “everyone has to be held to the same standard, Republican or Democrat alike,” adding that she was not “afraid of any predators.”
Here’s what to know.
What are the allegations against Mills?
Mills has represented Florida’s 7th congressional district since 2023, and he serves on the House’s Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees. Before joining Congress, Mills co-founded a defense contracting firm.
In February 2025, D.C. police were called to Mills’ residence after a 27-year-old woman who was not his wife reported a physical altercation between her and the lawmaker. But Mills disputed allegations of assault, and the woman who reported recanted her statements. Mills was ultimately not charged, and The Hill reported that D.C. police had closed the case as of August last year. The Washington Post on Saturday, however, raised questions about the non-arrest of Mills, citing body-cam footage of the night in question and documents, including a warrant request that was denied.
Last October, a Florida judge issued a restraining order against Mills after an ex-girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, accused him of harassment. Langston claimed that Mills threatened to release intimate videos and hurt her future boyfriends after the two broke up following the incident in D.C. Mills has denied wrongdoing: “These claims are false and misrepresent the nature of my interactions,” he said in a statement last year.
In an August 2024 report, the board of the Office of Congressional Conduct—an independent, non-partisan entity that reviews allegations of misconduct in the House and refers them to the House Ethics Committee—said that Mills may have violated House rules, standards of conduct, and federal law.
The report said that Mills may have held weapons contracts with the federal government while serving in Congress. It reported that Pacem Defense/ALS, two entities tied to Mills and his wife, have been “actively contracting with the federal government” and had secured close to $1 million in federal contracts for munitions and weapons from January 2023 until the report’s date. The report said Mills had refused to cooperate with the OCC in the review.
The report also said that Mills’ campaign may have accepted excessive contributions and he may have omitted or misrepresented information on his financial disclosure reports. But the Federal Election Commission earlier voted to dismiss allegations that Mills and his campaign “knowingly accepted excessive or prohibited contributions or contributions in the name [of] another.”
Mills, an Army veteran, also faces accusations of misrepresenting his military career. He was awarded a Bronze Star in 2021 for his purported actions in Iraq back in 2003, though several others who served with him said they don’t remember him being present in the incidents that landed him the merit.
Republican dilemma
Should Mills leave Congress, by expulsion or resignation like Gonzales and Swalwell, Republicans’ narrow majority in the lower chamber would become even slimmer.
But Mace appears to be not the only Republican backing Mills’ ouster. Rep. Kat Cammack (R, Fla.) wrote on social media, attaching a Politico report about House Republicans protecting Mills: “Not this Republican. I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat. No one is above the law.”
Politico had reported that unnamed Republicans are waiting for the House Ethics Committee probe into Mills, launched in November 2025, to conclude before making any moves to potentially punish him. Speaker Mike Johnson said last week that he would be “looking into” the progress of the investigation.
Trump, however, appears to back Mills: in February, he endorsed him for re-election, touting him as an “America First Patriot.”
On Monday, the bipartisan House Ethics Committee released a rare statement, saying it remains committed to “maintaining a congressional workplace free from sexual misconduct and ensuring that any individuals responsible for misconduct are held responsible for their behavior.” It also called on those who have been victims of or who are otherwise aware of any sexual misconduct by a House member or staffer to submit a complaint.
