Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she wants to spend more time with her family and has changed parties.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces resignation from Congress
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she is resigning from Congress after months of feuding with President Trump and other Republican leaders.
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her plans on Nov. 21, she laid out a list of reasons for her resignation from Congress.
Greene, a once staunch ally of President Donald Trump who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, has spent much of Trump’s first year in office bashing Republicans in Congress, pushing Trump’s new policy agenda and battling House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Greene announced her resignation in a lengthy four-page statement, skewering Congress for being dependent on making money rather than the concerns of ordinary Americans.
Here’s what we know about why she won’t run for re-election and will leave Congress a year before the end of her term.
threat
Greene was one of only four Republicans to join House Democrats in forcing a vote on releasing files from the criminal investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Despite pressure from President Trump, they refused to remove their names from the petition that led to the vote.
The president branded her a “traitor” on social media and said she had betrayed the party.
“All ‘weird’ Marjorie does is complain, complain, complain!” Trump wrote on social media.
Greene said on social media on Nov. 15 that threats against her had spiked in the wake of President Trump’s intense online attacks on her for supporting the release of the Epstein files.
“The hotbed of threats against me is fueled and fueled by the most powerful person in the world, someone I supported and helped get elected. The aggressive rhetoric attacking me has historically led to death threats and multiple convictions of men radicalized by the same type of rhetoric directed against me today, this time by the president of the United States,” she said.
No approval
He also withdrew his support when Trump called Greene a traitor. He said on social media on Nov. 22 that he would not have been re-elected without him.
Greene argued that while she could win without support, she did not want to endure a contentious primary.
“I have too much self-respect and dignity, and I love my family too much. I don’t want my sweet district to endure a hurtful, hate-filled primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to win my election while the Republicans are likely to lose the midterms,” she said.
party changed
In her letter, Greene said it was the Republican Party that had changed, not her. She has taken a wide range of positions in both major political parties, but has been vocally at odds with Republican leadership, particularly Trump.
In recent months, Greene has broken with her party on several issues, including H-1B visas, AI, the 50-year mortgage, ending foreign wars and demanding full disclosure of the Epstein files.
“No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democratic, nothing will get better for ordinary American men and women. The debt will only increase. Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweetheart,” Greene said, placing additional blame on “illegal labor,” “big business,” and “foreign interests.”
Vesting
Green did not say why he is resigning on January 5, 2026, rather than immediately.
But one reason could be that lawmakers must serve five years to receive their full federal pension. She won’t be eligible to receive that pension until she turns 62.
