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Marjorie Taylor Greene To Resign From Congress

In a shocking move, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Friday she’s resigning from Congress in January amid a public falling out with President Donald Trump and GOP leadership.

Greene announced her decision to step down on Jan. 5, 2026, in a video and statement posted to X. The lengthy statement details her disillusionment with Trump, his Make America Great Again movement and the Republican Party.

“My only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America First,” Greene said in her statement. “With that has brought years of nonstop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies about me, that most people could never withstand even for a day.”

She continued, “It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

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Greene, who was first elected to Congress in 2020 after campaigning as a stalwart supporter of Trump, has had a major fallout with the president over the effort to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Last week, Trump slammed her as a “traitor” when she joined three other Republicans in supporting holding a vote on releasing the entire trove of files on the late sex offender, a one-time friend of Trump’s.

Greene alluded to the battle over the Epstein files in her resignation statement.

“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,” she wrote.

Greene also used her statement to rip into her House colleagues, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), for their handling of the recent government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.

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“The House should have been in session working every day to fix this disaster, but instead America was force-fed disgusting political drama once again from both sides of the aisle,” she said.

Greene alleged that many establishment Republicans embraced by the Trump administration since his reelection “secretly hate him.”

Despite her recent spat with the president, the Georgia congresswoman was an embodiment of the Republican MAGA era. She’s embraced and spread a litany of conspiracy theories, dabbling in everything from Pizzagate and QAnon to speculation that 9/11 was an inside job, that Barack Obama is a secret Muslim and that several mass shootings were false flags.

When her embrace of more racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories came to light shortly after she took office in 2021, the House of Representatives took the rare step of voting to strip her of her committee assignments.

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The flames of outrage Greene stoked weren’t limited to her embrace of those theories. In 2022, she spoke at a conference hosted by white nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, who’s famously praised Adolf Hitler and, more recently, Joseph Stalin. In 2023, she called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) a “little bitch” on the House floor, in part leading to her expulsion from the chamber’s Freedom Caucus. She also compared COVID-19 safety measures to the Holocaust and mused that straight people would soon go extinct because of “trans terrorists” and LGBTQ-inclusive instruction in schools.

Despite all that, Greene handily won reelection in 2022 and 2024, receiving around 65% of the vote in both elections.

While Trump raged against Greene and pulled his endorsement for her reelection, her constituents appeared ready to back her again, according to reporting by NBC News and Bloomberg.

“She should not be seen as a traitor. She’s trying to do the best for the American people and I think Donald Trump should accommodate her and work for America,” one voter told NBC.

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Greene, in her statement, said she believed she’d win her district again, but that the fight would be too difficult on her loved ones. She also predicted that Republicans will lose the House, opening the door for Democrats to impeach Trump again.

“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,” she said. “And in turn, be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”

Greene’s decision drew praise from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who Trump has also targeted after pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

“I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously,” Massie wrote on X. “She embodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there’s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime.”