Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) is leaving Congress before the end of his term, a move that will narrow the GOP’s already-slender majority in the House.
The chair of the House Homeland Security Committee announced in a statement released Monday he was moving to “an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up.”
He did not reveal the position.
Green is an Iraq War veteran who in 2003 interrogated captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and who, as a Tennessee state senator, in 2017 withdrew his nomination as then-President Donald Trump’s pick for Army Secretary following the resurfacing of anti-LGBTQ remarks.
The lawmaker had been due to stand for reelection in 2026 but will now leave, he revealed, once Trump’s controversial so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill” returns from the Senate and has been voted on again in the House.
