Georgia Republican lawmaker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has announced her resignation from office with her last day “being January 5, 2026.”
Previously an icon of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene had a very public falling out with Donald Trump, with the President announcing earlier this month that he was withdrawing all support for the congresswoman he described as “‘Wacky’ Marjorie.”
Trump called her a “traitor” and said that he’d support a Republican challenge to her House seat next year.
Greene posted in a lengthy resignation statement on social media that loyalty “should be a two-way street,” while Congress “has mostly been sidelined” under the Trump administration.
In her video statement, the 51-year-old Congresswoman from Georgia said that she had “always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I’ve been despised in Washington, DC, and never fit in.”
In her statement, Greene said that she wanted to avoid a nasty primary — while predicting that the Republican party would lose its House majority in the midterms.
“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 likely lose the midterms.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene
The decision to step down will cap a turbulent five-year career in Washington, during which Greene was publicly condemned for violent rhetoric on the House floor and booted from the hard-right Freedom Caucus over a feud with a fellow Republican — while wielding extraordinary influence in her party as one of Trump’s most trusted political allies on Capitol Hill.
First elected in 2020, the Georgia Congresswoman was known for vocally touting conspiracy theories and for her incendiary rhetoric, including prior remarks endorsing violence against Democrats in Congress.
In recent weeks, Greene criticized Trump for being too focused on foreign policy and not doing enough with his domestic agenda at home — going as far as to side with Democrats over the contentious issue of costly enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire next month.
This year, Greene became the first Republican lawmaker to call US ally Israel’s assault on Gaza a genocide.
Greene also became one of the White House’s most vocal critics of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files.
She and fellow Republican Representative Thomas Massie accused the White House of attempting to conceal details of the files. Following fierce resistance, Trump ultimately signed an Epstein transparency measure into law earlier this week.
In her resignation statement, Greene referenced the Epstein controversy.
“Standing up for American women who were raped 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.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene
Greene’s Resignation Signals Growing Split In MAGA World
The move by Greene to resign from Congress before the 2026 midterms is the clearest sign yet of a growing split in the MAGA world amid strong Democratic victories in this month’s off-year elections, and Trump’s warm White House meeting earlier on Friday with New York’s leftist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Greene’s exit is likely to be quickly felt in the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson must navigate a razor-thin majority.
The Republican leader already faces the tall order in the new year of corralling his fractious conference to move on major legislation and further the US President’s priorities.
Massie wrote on X, shortly after Greene’s announcement,“I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie.” Stating that he’ll miss her tremendously, Massive added that Greene “embodies what a true Representative should be.”
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