After an ongoing public fallout with President Donald Trump, Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia announced Friday, Nov. 21, that she will resign her seat in the House of Representatives.
She made the announcement in a post on the social platform X and said it will be effective Jan. 5.
“I’m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead,” she wrote. “I will be resigning from office with my last day being Jan. 5, 2025.”
Greene’s move to resign from the House of Representatives comes amid an ongoing feud with Republican Party leadership over the release of files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional district, notably broke ranks to support releasing the Epstein files ahead of fellow Republicans.
Greene also was critical of Republican leadership over the government shutdown.
The former MAGA fan favorite has been exiled by Trump after she spent most of his first year back in office bashing her own party in Congress and bucking House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump’s back-and-forth spat with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene reached a fever pitch in recent days when the president withdrew his endorsement of the Georgia Republican and assigned her a nickname – an act typically reserved for his fiercest political rivals.
“All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” Trump wrote on social media, in reference to concerns Greene floated about his focus on foreign policy, the government shutdown and controversy surrounding accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives which is why I’ve always been despised in Washington DC and never fit in,” Greene said in a statement posted on X, adding that she was disappointed in the pushback she faced in Congress and legislators failure to meaningfully improve the lives of her constituents.
“I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.”
During Trump’s last visit to Mar-a-Lago, he bashed Marjorie Taylor Greene
During his last weeked trip to Palm Beach County, Trump called Greene a “traitor, “a disgrace” and a “lightweight” on his Truth Social platform.
On his social-media platform, Trump posted tirades against Greene, who Trump accused of having “gone far Left” and of becoming “the RINO that we all know that she always was.” Trump also reposted numerous missives from others who called Greene a “sellout” and warned that her “political future just ended.”Trump accused Greene, known by her initials as MTG, of complaining incessantly despite “my creating Record Achievements for our Country” and then listing a myriad of what he called successes including on border security, tax cuts, DEI rollbacks and ending global conflicts.The ugly break with Greene is reminiscent of prior falling outs with Elon Musk and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The schism with MTG has turned equally personal.
Greene, whose staff declined an interview for this story, came to Congress with a reputation for supporting the conspiratorial QAnon movement. Sworn in just days before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, she has been an outspoken supporter of theories that the 2020 president election was stolen.
The Georgia representative was the most outspoken advocate for forcing the Department of Justice to release its investigative files on Epstein, the late alleged sex trafficker, even though Trump − a former friend of Epstein’s − opposed the measure. At a Sept. 3 press conference, she framed the issue around sexual abuse, good versus evil, and what she called Epstein’s powerful “cabal.”
Will Marjorie Taylor Greene run for president?
Some political observers are wondering if Greene, a longtime MAGA loyalist, is setting a new tone to potentially run for president in 2028. The Georgia Republican was pressed about a possible White House bid in a Vanity Fair feature published Monday, Nov. 17.
“Well, I’ve burned down the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, now the health insurance industry, pretty much ever group that lobbies up here in Washington D.C.,” Greene initially claimed, according to the outlet.
When asked again, Greene said that “I have never said I was running for president.” After she was pressed a third and final time, she had a different answer. “Uh, I am not considering running for president. I’m literally trying with every soul (sic) in my body to just do this current job,” Greene told VF.
Palm Beach Post Political Editor Antonio Fins contributed to this report.
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