grey bull rescue
7 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- March 20, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace returns from a second Middle East trip with a 2,000-name manifest; separately, a mother publicly accuses Grey Bull Rescue of demanding $1M before returning her daughter
Around March 19-20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace completed a second evacuation trip, helping a South Carolina mother and her four sons travel out of Israel through Jordan. Mace said she held a manifest of over 2,000 stranded Americans. Separately, according to reporting attributed to Jewish Rhode Island and the Jerusalem Post, Dr. Lauren Hofstatter publicly accused Grey Bull Rescue, the nonprofit Mace embedded with, of demanding that approximately $1 million be raised before returning her daughter from Jordan. Grey Bull founder Bryan Stern denied the accusation. Mace defended the organization. The accusation is unadjudicated and is denied.
- March 18, 2026 · Dispatch
Anonymous White House officials blast Mace's Israel rescue missions as 'political gain'; Mace says she kept State informed throughout
The Guardian reported on March 18, 2026, picked up by Raw Story and WTOC, that unnamed Trump White House and State Department officials were furious at Rep. Nancy Mace over her two evacuation trips to Israel. The anonymous officials alleged she contacted the Saudi government without notifying State, asked the administration to requisition a Saudi plane for ~300 people, and urged Americans toward Jordan without secured onward travel. Mace's office said she kept State informed and that State approved the DHS plane. The dispute is unresolved and every government critic spoke anonymously.
- March 12, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace flies to Israel, helps secure plane, and evacuates 155 Americans, including 11 infants, to Greece
Rep. Nancy Mace traveled to Israel around March 8, 2026, after a stranded South Carolina constituent family asked for her help. Embedding with the veteran-led nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue, she helped secure a DHS/State Department-chartered plane. On March 12 she announced that 155 Americans, including 11 infants, had been flown out to Greece.
Incidents
Israel evacuation missions and the White House clash (March 2026)
Rep. Mace made two trips to the Middle East in March 2026, embedding with veteran nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue to evacuate stranded Americans during the Israel, Iran war. 155 Americans including 11 infants were evacuated on the first trip. Anonymous White House officials accused her of conducting unauthorized outreach to Saudi Arabia and staging the missions for political gain; she denied this, and Grey Bull's founder called her 'fully embedded … to work to save lives.'
March 12, 2026 · Incident
Wiki & people
Israel: Mace's trips, statements, and the 2026 evacuations
A topic hub covering Rep. Nancy Mace's documented engagement with Israel, the February 2025 congressional trip during which she tweeted about bombed buses and met Netanyahu, the May 2025 Facebook reflection, and the March 2026 Middle East missions in which she helped evacuate 155 Americans with Grey Bull Rescue, triggering a White House backlash.
March 20, 2026 · Wiki
Bryan Stern
Founder and CEO of Grey Bull Rescue, a Tampa-based veteran-led crisis-response nonprofit that embedded Rep. Nancy Mace during her March 2026 Israel evacuation missions.
March 12, 2026 · Wiki
Lauren Hofstatter
A mother who publicly alleged that Grey Bull Rescue delayed the return of her daughter from Jordan during the 2026 Israel, Iran war evacuation operations unless approximately $1 million was raised, allegations Grey Bull and founder Bryan Stern denied.
March 12, 2026 · Wiki