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.
