Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced on X Friday she will resign from Congress early next year after a week-long spat with President Trump and much of her party.
Her last day will be Jan. 5, 2026, Greene said.
In a statement, the far-right congresswoman expressed frustration with her party and the change in momentum in Congress, writing that GOP leadership had refused to work on addressing health care costs and bills she had authored on immigration and other issues lay “collecting dust.” She said the “legislature has been largely relegated to the background.”
She also pointed to her dramatic break with Trump. President last week withdrew Green's supportcalling her “stupid” and a “traitor” after she criticized Republicans' handling of several issues. She claimed Mr Trump was provoked by her push to release records related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, something the president had previously opposed before approving and then endorsing signing of the law on the release of records This week.
“Defending American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and exploited by wealthy, powerful men should not result in me being called a traitor and the President of the United States for whom I fought being threatened,” Greene wrote, saying her self-worth is determined not by a man, but by God.
Of Mr. Trump's threat to support a primary challenger in her deep-red district, Greene said: “I have too much self-respect and dignity, I love my family too much, and I don't want my sweet county to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win their election while the Republicans lose the midterm elections.”
“This is all so absurd and completely frivolous,” she said. “I refuse to be a ‘beaten wife’, hoping that everything will go away and get better.”
Trump's political operation has received inquiries in recent days from potential Republican candidates asking them to challenge Greene, a GOP source familiar with the situation told CBS News.
IN statement published on XGeorgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon called Greene a “tireless fighter.”
“While her decision to resign from Congress effective January 5 came as a surprise amid recent challenges, her legacy as a courageous grassroots voice will endure,” he said.
If Greene's resignation leaves her seat vacant, it could tighten the already razor-thin GOP margin in the House until it is filled by a special election. The governor must order a special election within 10 days of a vacancy in the House of Representatives, and elections must be held 30 days after that, according to Georgia law. National Conference of State Legislatures.
Greene's political status has changed over the past month and a half. She has broke up with the president she defended herself for years and clashed with her party's top leaders in Congress, leading to applause from Democratic lawmakers who once voted yes take away her committee assignments because of conspiratorial comments.
It began during the government shutdown, which was caused in part by Democrats' desire to extend set of expiring health insurance tax breaks in exchange for their votes to fund federal agencies. Republican leadership argued that the government must reopen before negotiating health care.
Greene publicly criticized her party, accusing the leadership of failing to develop a plan to prevent massive increase in insurance premiums something many families could face next year if the tax breaks are not extended. She also criticized Speaker Mike Johnson for keeping the House from sitting during the adjournment.
asked from CBS News If he found any unexpected GOP allies during the shutdown fight, top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries responded, “Three words—Marjorie Taylor Greene.”
Green has also criticized Trump administration for focusing on foreign policy rather than domestic financial inclusion issues.
And her position on the Epstein files conflicted with Mr. Trump's. Greene and three other House Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on a bill that would force the release of government documents on Epstein, raising an issue that concerns many Trump allies but which the president has long seen as a distraction by Democrats and “stupid” Republicans.
Greene called Trump's stance on the issue a “huge miscalculation.” interview last week with “CBS Mornings”, arguing that the president has nothing to hide. Trump ultimately backed the bill, which passed the House and Senate almost unanimously this week. The law was signed on Wednesday.
In a Truth Social post last week, the president said Greene had “gone to the far left” and wrote that “all I see 'Wacky' Marjorie doing is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” He claimed she was upset because he was discouraging her from entering the hotly contested Georgia Senate race next year.
Green meanwhile quit her break with the Republican Party and the president as a result of her commitment to the “America First” agenda widely associated with Mr. Trump.
“If I am discarded by MAGA Inc and replaced by neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, the military industrial complex, foreign leaders and an elite donor class that cannot even relate to real Americans, then many ordinary Americans will also be discarded and replaced,” she wrote in a statement Friday.
—Ryan Sprouse and Jared Eggleston contributed to this report.
