Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Friday that she will resign from Congress in early January, ending a five-year tenure that began with unwavering loyalty to Donald Trump and collapsed into open hostility with the president she once championed.
In a video posted online and filmed from her living room, Greene said she would step down on Jan. 5, 2026, telling supporters she did not want her northwest Georgia district “to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for.” Her decision caps months of intensifying conflict with Trump over the release of Jeffrey Epstein-related documents, foreign policy disputes, and health care battles. Trump responded by calling her a “traitor” and “wacky,” pledging to support a challenger if she ran again in 2026.
Speaking to ABC News on Friday evening, Trump welcomed the announcement. He called it “great news for the country” and said he had no plans to speak with her, though he offered his best wishes.
Greene used her video to frame the split with Trump as a matter of principle, noting that “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 added that her values remain unchanged and that “my self-worth is not defined by a man, but instead by God.”
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She also directed criticism at her own party’s leadership. Since Republicans took unified control of Washington in January, Greene argued, “the legislature has been mostly sidelined” while members’ bills “just sit collecting dust.” She predicted Republicans would lose the 2026 midterms and said she refused to defend a president who “hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.” As she put it: “It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
Greene’s rise drew national attention from the moment she won Georgia’s deep-red 14th District in 2020. Her embrace of conspiracy theories — including early support for QAnon and unfounded claims linking California wildfires to space lasers associated with prominent Jewish figures — made her one of the most polarizing members of Congress. Though she later distanced herself from some of those remarks, she quickly secured Trump’s endorsement and became one of the most visible champions of the MAGA movement.
Her resignation marks an unusual turn: a hard-line Trump ally stepping aside rather than confronting the president in a primary. Under Georgia law, Gov. Brian Kemp must call a special election within 10 days to fill the remainder of her term, which runs through January 2027. The special election could take place before the regularly scheduled May 2026 primaries.
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