GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from House as of Jan. 5

WASHINGTON, D.C. (TIP): Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) said late Friday, November 21, that she will resign from Congress as of Jan. 5, a surprise announcement that came days after a public spat between President Donald Trump in which he lobbed public insults at his longtime ally and said he would not endorse her next year, says Washington Post

In her announcement, the longtime supporter of the Make America Great Again movement celebrated her conservative voting record in Congress and close alignment with Trump’s priorities. But she complained about how the shutdown and other issues have rendered Congress ineffective.

“I ran for Congress in 2020 and have fought every single day believing that Make America Great Again meant America First,” Greene said in a video and statement on X. “However, with almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined.”

Greene said the House should have been working to address providing health insurance instead of being shut down for eight weeks. She said her colleagues, now back in the House, will soon go into campaign season — and leave Washington again.

“I raged against my own speaker and my own party for refusing to proactively work diligently to pass the plan to save Americans health care and protect Americans from outrageous, overpriced and unaffordable health insurance policies,” Greene said. “The House should have been in session, working every day to fix this disaster, but instead, America was force fed disgusting political drama.”

Greene and Trump had been on opposite sides for weeks on issues including foreign policy and health insurance subsidies. The rift broke on Nov. 14 as she pushed to force the House to vote on requiring the Justice Department to release more Epstein files. Late last week, the president called Greene a “traitor” and said he would endorse a challenger against her in the 2026 midterms.

Greene said that she has “too much self-respect and dignity” and that she loves her district too much to endure “a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president that we all fought for.” Greene also said that she has also endured “nonstop, never-ending personal attacks, death threats, lawfare, ridiculous slander and lies” throughout her career in Congress.

In a 10-minute video, Greene touted her voting record as a staunch member of the Republican Party and her push for limits on H-1B visas, 50-year mortgage loans, as well as her stances on foreign wars, as well as her demands on the release for more information on Epstein.

“Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our districts interest because our job title is literally representative,” she said, adding that “standing up for American women who were raped at 14 years old trafficked and used by rich, powerful men should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the president of the United States whom I’ve fought for.”

Greene first joined the House in 2021, becoming the first open supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory to win a seat in Congress. She has long been a polarizing figure and a darling of Trump’s MAGA brand of conservatism before it became the norm within the GOP.

In her video Friday, Greene said her “only goal and desire has ever been to hold the Republican Party accountable for the promises it makes to the American people and put America first.”
(Source: The Washington Post)