Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) surprised fellow lawmakers this weekend after he announced that he got remarried a little more than a year after his wife of 35 years suddenly died.
Massie confirmed via social media today that he wed former Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) staffer Carolyn Grace Moffa.
Carolyn and I would like to announce our recent marriage!
We were legally married in Kentucky on October 19th by the pastor of the church we have been attending for several months. This weekend we celebrated with close friends and family at a Christian wedding ceremony in… pic.twitter.com/7fmikl7li3
— Thomas Massie for Congress (@MassieforKY) November 3, 2025
Among those in attendance included Paul and fellow GOP reps. Jim Jordan, Warren Davidson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Victoria Spartz all attended the ceremony in Pennsylvania, where his new wife is from.
Massie proposed to Moffa, 36, on the front steps of the Library of Congress, where they had their first date.
Massie’s first wife, Rhonda Massie, passed away last year. Massie never publicly addressed her cause of death, which prompted many to speculate wild conspiracy theories about her untimely death, but her cause of death was later revealed to be “respiratory complications of chronic autoimmune myopathy.”
“Although I first reacted with indignation to internet conspiracy theories about her death, I’ve since been amused because I know Rhonda would have laughed, and if I were on the outside I might have similar concerns,” he posted on X two weeks after her death.
Massie’s late wife also knew Moffa.
“Carolyn Grace Moffa and I first met professionally over a decade ago when she worked for Senator Rand Paul. As Senator Paul’s Ag policy staffer until 2016, Carolyn was a very early proponent and practitioner of Making America Healthy Again. She even visited me and my late wife Rhonda on our grass-fed cattle farm several years ago. Carolyn has not previously been married,” he posted on X.
Massie has been a vocal Republican voice against President Donald Trump since he was re-elected last November.
Trump once dubbed Massie as a “loser” and “third rate congressman” and even tapped retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein to challenge Massie for his seat in response to his vocal opposition to Trump’s budget and foreign policy issues, most notably Iran, earlier this year.
Massie has publicly demanded the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and spoken out against Trump’s massive tax breaks and spending cuts package, claiming it will grow the national debt.
Massie recently spoke out against Trump’s challenger, saying Gallrein was “someone willing to be a rubber stamp for globalist billionaires, endless debt, foreign aid and forever wars.”