11/22/2025
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced on X Friday she will resign from Congress early next year, after a weekslong falling-out with President Trump and much of her party.
Her last day will be Jan. 5, 2026, Greene said.
In a statement, the hard-right congresswoman expressed frustration with her party and with the change of pace in Congress, writing that GOP leadership had refused to work on addressing health care costs, and bills that she drafted on immigration and other issues had sat "collecting dust." She said the "legislature has been mostly sidelined."
She also pointed to her dramatic break with Mr. Trump. The president pulled his support from Greene last week, calling her "wacky" and a "traitor" after she criticized Republicans' handling of several issues. She has claimed that Mr. Trump was set off by her push to disclose records related to the late convicted s*x offender Jeffrey Epstein, which the president previously opposed before endorsing and later signing a bill to release the records this week.
"Standing up for American women who were r***d at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for," Greene wrote, saying her "self worth is not defined by a man, but instead by God."
On Mr. Trump's threat to back a primary challenger in her deep-red district, Greene said: "I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will lose the midterms."
"It's all so absurd and completely unserious," she said. "I refuse to be a 'battered wife' hoping it all goes away and gets better."
Mr. Trump reacted to the news of Greene's resignation on Saturday, saying it was because of "PLUMMETING Poll Numbers and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!)"
"For some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD," Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Nevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!