WASHINGTON — Multiple House Republican lawmakers seethed Tuesday over a failed effort to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI ) over her 2019 text exchange with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein — accusing leadership of cutting a backroom deal with Dems to spare Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) the same rebuke.

Republicans stuck together to beat back an initial effort to kill the censure resolution against Plaskett. However, the measure was rejected hours later, with three Republicans voting against punishing Plaskett, three more voting “present,” and four sitting out the vote entirely.

Had the censure resolution against Plaskett succeeded, Democrats planned to make a similar move against Mills, who has been accused of stolen valor, financial misconduct, and domestic abuse — all of which he

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