Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit US Congress after fallout with Trump

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By Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro and Jeff Amy

Updated November 22, 2025 — 1.01pm

Washington: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said she is resigning from Congress in January.

Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online on Saturday (AEDT), explained her decision and said she’s “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and just never fit in”.

Her resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticised him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and health care.

Trump branded her a “traitor” and “wacky” and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for reelection next year.

Greene said her last day would be January 5, 2026. Greene’s resignation will narrow the Republican majority in the House to 218 members over the Democrats’ 213. Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate.

“I ran for Congress in 2020 and have fought every single day believing that Make America Great Again meant America First,” she said in the video and statement posted on X.

“However, with almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Friday night.

Conservative influencer Laura Loomer said Greene’s departure from Congress would hamper Trump’s agenda ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. “She wants the Democrats to win,” Loomer said on the social platform X.

Greene was one of the most vocal and visible supporters of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” politics, and she embraced some of his unapologetic political style.

Her break with him was a notable fissure in his grip over conservatives, particularly his most ardent base. But her decision to step down in the face of his opposition put her on the same track as many of the more moderate establishment Republicans before her who went crosswise with Trump.

Greene had been closely tied to the Republican president since she launched her political career in 2020.

In her video, she underscored her longtime loyalty to Trump except on a few issues, and said it was “unfair and wrong” that he attacked her for disagreeing.

“Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest, because our job title is literally ‘representative’,” she said.

Greene swept to office at the forefront of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement and swiftly became a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her often beyond-mainstream views.

As she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared with white supremacists, Greene was opposed by party leaders but welcomed by Trump. He called her “a real WINNER!”

Yet over time she proved a deft legislator, having aligned herself with then-GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who would go on to become House speaker. She was a trusted voice on the right flank, until McCarthy was ousted in 2023.

While there has been an onslaught of lawmakers from both parties heading for the exits ahead of next fall’s midterm elections, as the House struggles through an often chaotic session, Greene’s announced retirement will ripple throughout the ranks — and raise questions about her next moves.

Greene speaking ahead of then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign event in Atlanta in late 2024.

Greene was first elected to the House in 2020. She initially planned to run in a competitive district in northern Atlanta’s suburbs, but relocated to the much more conservative 14th District in Georgia’s northwest corner.

She showed a penchant for harsh rhetoric and conspiracy theories even before her election, suggesting a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas was a co-ordinated attack to spur support for new gun restrictions. In 2018, she endorsed the idea that the US government perpetrated the attacks on September 11, 2001, and mused that a “so-called” plane had hit the Pentagon.

Greene argued in 2019 that Democrat representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib– both Muslim women – weren’t “official” members of Congress because they used Qurans rather than Bibles in their swearing-in ceremonies.

She eventually distanced herself, saying she got “sucked into some of the things I had seen on the internet.”

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