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.”

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.

“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.

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