Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation From Congress, UPDATE: A Minor Detail
“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.”
On Friday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced she will resign from Congress effective Jan. 5, 2026. Her decision follows a very public falling-out with President Donald Trump, resulting in his revocation of his endorsement and his vow to back a primary challenger against her.
Given her chances of surviving a Trump-backed challenger, Greene saw the writing on the wall and decided to bow out.
She announced her resignation in a 10-minute video post on X, which began:
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.Americans are used by the Political Industrial Complex of both Political Parties, election cycle
after election cycle, in order to elect whichever side can convince Americans to hate the other
side more.And the results are always the same.
No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.
My official statement. pic.twitter.com/x48zEugmPV
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025
Following her attacks on Trump over the past few months, few Republicans are sorry to see her go. The replies to Greene’s post are vicious. Here are a few of them:
This was your future so you quit before it happened pic.twitter.com/COMNJzi94Q
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 22, 2025
I wish you well MTG. I just hope you don’t go around playing the victim card. The working class Americans you say you advocate for cannot imagine making 25 million in 5 years, on a government salary. pic.twitter.com/1JMOHJ2tzi
— MAGAMattyNereim (@MAGAMattyQ) November 22, 2025
From Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL):
Good riddance.
— Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) November 22, 2025
Take your official statement and shove it. Nobody cares. You’re a traitor. That’s all you’ll ever be remembered as.
I was foolish to ever support you. I admit it. I was wrong.
Glad I’ve been shown the truth and you’re leaving Congress.
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) November 22, 2025
Once one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, Greene has become one of his most outspoken critics. Their feud reached a fever pitch last Friday night when Trump took to Truth Social to announce he had withdrawn his support and endorsement from the Georgia congresswoman.
He wrote: “All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN! It all seemed to begin when I sent her a poll showing that she should not run for senator or governor — she was at 12% and didn’t have a chance.”
🚨 BREAKING: Trump pulls his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene, prepares to primary her in Georgia
OMG. pic.twitter.com/6p0TjZ6slG
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) November 15, 2025
Minutes later, Greene returned fire on X. She insisted Trump was angry over her support to release the Epstein files, writing, “And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other Republicans before next weeks vote to release the Epstein files. It’s astonishing really how hard he’s fighting to stop the Epstein files from coming out that he actually goes to this level.”
President Trump just attacked me and lied about me. I haven’t called him at all, but I did send these text messages today. Apparently this is what sent him over the edge.
The Epstein files.
And of course he’s coming after me hard to make an example to scare all the other… pic.twitter.com/EcUzaohZZs
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 15, 2025
Despite Greene’s insistence that her clash with Trump began over the Epstein files, the rift appears to have started after he sent her private polling on how she might fare in a potential Georgia Senate or gubernatorial run.
During a CNN panel discussion on last Sunday’s State of the Union, analyst Scott Jennings shed some light on why those polls may have upset Greene so much: the Senate survey showed her trailing Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) by a staggering 20 points. It’s one thing to lose an election; it’s another to be publicly humiliated.
Such a defeat would have been humiliating for Greene and damaging to both Georgia Republicans and the party’s hopes of maintaining a Senate majority.
🚨 BREAKING: SCOTT JENNINGS on President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
"[Trump] didn't tell her not to run [for Senate]. What she didn't say was that he sent her a poll privately, discreetly, and it had information in it. And it showed her down 20 points to Sen. Jon Ossoff."… pic.twitter.com/t8dTssaQoe
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 16, 2025
It’s just as well that she’s stepping down. As I noted earlier this week, while Greene is hardly a political heavyweight, her continued presence in Congress would have been a constant irritant to Trump and her colleagues in the GOP — something none of them need heading into the 2026 midterm cycle.
Update added 11/22, 4 p.m.
Numerous reporters who cover Capitol Hill have pointed out a minor detail. The effective date of Greene’s resignation is significant; it comes two days after her congressional pension vests.
Hardly the point, but I will note that Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning two days after her congressional pension vests.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) November 22, 2025
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Maybe now we can finally get those Jewish space lasers she was talking about. I can’t wait to order mine from IWI! Or was that also more nonsense from MTG? Dang!
I got mine a year ago on Temu.
She never actually said (or retweeted) that. The message she retweeted didn’t mention Jews at all. It was just really stupid, not antisemitic. Dems pasted the Jewish bit on.
At the time this happened one of my Dem friends confronted me with it, and I explained what she had actually retweeted, and he said but no one could be that stupid. It must have been antisemitic. And I said yes, she is that stupid.
Too much sanctimony from someone so quick to turn her back on her party. Her actions belie her words.
This had to be planned by her
I expect her to come our against republicans during the midterms
She’s not going away
She might think so but it sounds like turning on Trump will end her political career. I think she’s too obnoxious to last long on tv.
the left in every capacity is more obnoxious then she is
its her pursuit of truth that scares lefty/rinos
Good. She can take the millions she’s made off government service and join The View.
She came in worth $700,000 and now $25 million
The construction job must of really took off
Right Nancy
So sick of this
Bye
“Greene seemed not to rule out another political run, saying in her announcement that she looked ‘forward to seeing many of you again sometime in the future.'” Washington Post
Hmmmmm…. why resign Jan 5th? Its very unusual.
Call me skeptical. Shes coming back in a more ugly form.
Gotta love when this comment forum puts my comments in the wrong place
? fixed? Gotta love this comment forum when I put my comments in the wrong place?
Not until JANUARY.
And why that peculiar date 2 full months away? Why not now, if this was actually because of so-called ‘threats’ or anything else?
Because it’s 2 days past 5 years for her to get a lifetime government pension and healthcare.
A grifting loser to the very end.
What? She’s not retiring! Check FERS and “career conditional status.” She only gets 5% of 1 year’s salary when she turns 62. No health care.
Gabby Giffords did the same thing. She stayed until she had 5 years before resigning.
Might I recommend “FERSGUIDE” by Dan Jamison on Amazon or https://www.barfieldfinancial.com/
I don’t see a problem here. If you have a problem with this, it’s with the law, not MTG. If she gets what’s coming to her after being a member of Congress, then that’s the way it is. Indeed, members of both houses should be able to retire at $500K/year (payments starting when they turn 65) or some other fixed amount, after five years’ service, which is reduced by $50K/year for every five years’ service after the first five years. Incentivize their departure from Congress, rather than their sticking around too long.
Resigning the first Monday after her Congressional pension vests. If Congress really wanted to get something done, they would impeach her and save the taxpayers an extra retirement paycheck from someone who did nothing to earn it.
“Impeach her”?! Congressmen can’t be impeached.
Senator William Blount from Tennessee was impeached in 1799. The charges were later dismissed because he was expelled by the Senate, but there is no doubt that he was impeached.
https://history.house.gov/Institution/Impeachment/Impeachment-List/
And the senate dismissed the impeachment for lack of jurisdiction, on two grounds: (1) that he was never an officer within the meaning of Article 2 and therefore wasn’t subject to impeachment; and (2) that even if he had been an officer in that sense at the time, he wasn’t one any more.
Something is off. She suddenly went off the rails then started the leftist talk show rounds like The View where she suddenly was a darling of the media. The shift was 180 degrees overnight. This has nothing to do with the so called Epstein files
IMO the Epstein file drama was the final straw. Trump, for whatever reasons came out opposed to full transparency/release despite his campaign rhetoric and breathless public announcements by his Admin (FWIW I think he was concerned about reputation damage to peripheral names who were mentioned/associated but not named as pedos which shows he is far more gracious than many believe).
Trump also got his ego involved, he doesn’t like when folks, even members of Congress, don’t kowtow to his decisions/pronouncements. His vitriolic attacks on Greene and Massie, then threatening both with primaries demonstrates he isn’t able to simply command ‘loyalty’ and that seems to PO DJT. Then when the vote was all but assured of passing he jumped from opposition to supporting the release which the Senate did by unanimous consent (no opposing voices) and in the House with 427 votes in favor.
MTG is IMO frustrated with political reality. She’s basically proclaimed herself to be a center/right populist focused on economic/cultural issues impacting the forgotten middle class. Unfortunately DC establishment doesn’t prioritize the issues impacting them and it takes incremental steps to make headway towards change. Trump backing off workplace enforcement, touting the ‘positives’ of H1B visa, declaring that Americans can’t/won’t do jobs and declaring the higher ED system MUST continue to allow 600K ChiCom students annually or go broke/collapse are definitely not aligned with center/right populist policies. She fired back, read the writing on the wall, figured out that she wouldn’t be competitive Statewide, that her CD was far more of a Trump district than MTG district and without his endorsement she’d likely lose. IMO she’s always been more of an opportunistic grifter seeking to use the wave of center/right populism to advance her career. She resided in GA 6, initially campaigned in GA 7 then moved to GA 14 to run successfully… all in the span of a few months in 2020. Her rapid wealth gains seem to indicate more attachment to DC establishment than her constituents…$25 million in five years but only after gaining a HoR seat seems too much of a coincidence.
Maybe the CCP bought her.
Or, “going through the change”.
Have you not been paying attention?
You’re right. It had nothing to do with Epstein.
She wanted to run for the Senate seat, and Trump refused to support her because she was polling more than 20 points behind Ossoff. So she decided to ‘hurt’ Trump and all she did was destroy her own career.
This entire saga has been her throwing a public tantrum because she didn’t get her way.
I would like to know how she made $25M.
As the GOP closes ranks around foreign investors and tech giants, we celebrate the ousting of the third(or so)-to-last person in the room to even claim to give a shit about the average American.
MTG was simply wrong and the party was right. We are untrainable morons. We do need international workers to take American jobs in AI data centers subsidized by government money. It’s really not that big of a deal that our intelligence agencies ran defense for a sex trafficker that had his hands in everyone’s pockets. It’s fine to meet with terrorists in the oval office. What’s the big deal?
She was a loose cannon, generally in a useful way, until fhis year.
Far too often, things she’s said this year sounded like it came out of Pelosi.
I find far more interesting her observation that nothing ever improves for Americans, because DC is basically self interested and a logjam.
Based upon what I have seen in my 60+ years, despairingly, she is correct.
and thats the key
the rinos have given in for over a century to the leftist racist regimes sponsored by the msm >>schools
money isnt the problem
term limits isnt the problem
a weak and fearful maga is
we cant even take back/control the local schools anymore
I’m sorry to see her go. We can’t afford to lose conservatives in Congress. She was right about the Republican shutdown – they had a chance to end the filibuster and pass the rest of DJTs agenda (or expose the RINOs). The Republicans could have ended it, but didn’t.
Ending the filibuster would have been a disaster. It’s good that they didn’t do it, and they’ll be thankful for it next time they’re in the minority.
And no, it’s unlikely that the Dems will do it when they can, because they know the same thing. They didn’t do it when they last could have, or any previous time. If Sinema and Manchin weren’t enough to block it, a third Democrat would have been found to join them.
It didn’t have to end this way but here we are.
Over the past year, she has descended into batsh^t crazy territory!
I have been leery of MTG for quite some time and had started to disagree with her on many issues.
However, reading the response from Representative Randy Fine has made me rethink my position.
Anyone that bigot, immature and lying person is against may have more redeeming qualities than are apparent.
If one is known by their friends and enemies, having Fine as an enemy is a good thing.
shes one of my favorites and wish she would stay to fight these rino bastardos
gives the jasmine crookets another chance to gain power
And back to the trailer park she goes. Good bye to bad trash.
With 25 million dollars
it’s an upscale trailer park.
Gotta love “those broom stick eye lashes”
“Rep. Jasmine Crockett Launches Fake Eyelash Line to Pay Bills During Govt Shutdown” /s
No matter what her snit, leaving in January removes one Republican vote in a thin majority. Not an admirable position to take for an America Firster..
The fact that she couldn’t get any of “her” bills to advance probably has as much to do with her inability to work the system as the intransigence of the uniparty. Her soundbites were great but her actual accomplishments?
It’s Georgia, though, so the governor will call an election immediately and the seat will be filled as soon as possible. No risk of him deliberately holding the seat open, as there was in NY with Stefanik.
Ms. Taylor will receive the House pension. She will have served five years and two days; two days longer than the minimum required.
Which is why she didn’t resign effective this coming Monday.
And proof that she’s just another grifter.
Nonsense. I doubt that that there’s a person here who wouldn’t do the same in the same circumstance. There is nothing illegal or even untoward about taking full advantage of the rules. When I retired, I waited until the turn of the year when I was owed a cash payout for four weeks of vacation time that year vs, December 31, no payout. I didn’t make the rules; I followed them.