Nancy Mace celebrates transit funding to her state that she had opposed as 'socialism'

Rep. Nancy Mace (R) is back home in South Carolina to celebrate transportation money being spent in the Lowcountry. Just a few months ago, however, she voted against the bill that funded it, WCDB reported Wednesday.

In fact, every South Carolina member of Congress except for Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) voted against President Joe Biden's massive infrastructure legislation that is fixing roads and bridges and connecting high-speed internet to rural areas.

For Mace, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) funding coming to the Lowcountry will be in the form of $26 million for the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) to build a workforce center.

The cash will refurbish Shipwatch Square into a “super stop charging station” for electric buses.

Sec. Pete Buttigieg celebrated Clyburn as a "relentless advocate for this project."

"Remember, this bipartisan infrastructure law is the sort of thing that was promised and attempted under previous presidencies and previous congresses. People said they were going to deliver landmark infrastructure legislation and I think that's part of why when President Biden said it was going to be a priority people said, 'Oh, we'll see,'" Buttigieg said to laughter in the audience.

He went on to celebrate the mayor, saying that there were people on hand from the city, county and even local universities that were behind the project.

"You can feel all the way out in Washington, you can feel the difference when a community pulls together behind a vision like this," he continued. He did not acknowledge Congresswoman Mace in the remarks.

WCDB cited a release from Chairman of the Charleston County Democratic Party, Sam Skardon, explaining just how shameless Mace's presence was at such an event.

“It is important for every Lowcountry voter to know that not only did Rep. Mace vote against this critical infrastructure bill, she wrote an opinion column for Fox News in April 2021 calling it a 'fiasco,' 'absurd,' and this specific program (funding for electric mass transit vehicles) an example of 'socialism,'", he wrote in a Wednesday morning news release.

Mace's own personal press conference about the event began at 10 a.m., after Buttigieg's, but none of the local news stations appeared to carry it live.