On November 21, 2025, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand America First Republican from Georgia’s 14th District who first won her deep-red seat in 2020 and has served nearly five years in Congress, announced in a video and written statement on X that she will resign effective January 5, 2026, saying she refuses to drag her district through what she called a “hurtful and hateful” Trump-driven primary and is stepping aside for both personal and political reasons.
Once one of Donald Trump’s most aggressive allies—backing his challenges to the 2020 election and even trying to oust Speaker Mike Johnson in 2024—Greene spent 2025 increasingly breaking with Trump and House leadership over foreign wars, Israel–Iran policy, what she has called “genocide” in Gaza, and the failure to protect working-class families from exploding health-care and cost-of-living pressures.
The central flashpoint was the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405), a bipartisan bill introduced in July 2025 that passed the House 427–1 and the Senate by unanimous consent in November and became Public Law 119-38, forcing the Justice Department to publish unclassified records from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation; Greene emerged as one of the loudest Republican champions of forcing out the full client list through a discharge petition, even as Trump initially denounced the push as a “Democrat hoax” before ultimately signing the bill.
In response, Trump publicly revoked his endorsement, blasted her as a “ranting lunatic,” “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene” who had “gone Far Left,” and vowed to back a primary challenger, while Greene said she would not live as a political “battered wife,” pointing to death threats and other harassment she and her family have faced since the feud escalated.
In her resignation video and four-page statement, Greene railed against what she called the “Political Industrial Complex” in both parties that uses Americans as pawns, condemned GOP leaders for wasting the nation’s longest government shutdown on “disgusting political drama” instead of passing an America First plan to fix unaffordable insurance and other basic costs, and insisted she still stands firmly for the forgotten men and women who are buried in debt while Washington funds foreign priorities.
Her departure will trim the already razor-thin Republican majority from 219–213 to 218–213 when the vacancy opens, forcing Governor Brian Kemp to call a special election in her overwhelmingly Republican northwest Georgia district, where she has promised to stay neutral even as MAGA-aligned hopefuls and state-level power players jockey to replace her and some in the caucus warn that more early resignations could follow. Conservative ally Rep.
Thomas Massie praised her statement as unusually honest and said he would “miss her tremendously,” while Trump simultaneously celebrated her exit as “great news” and accused her of going “bad,” yet later said he’d “love to see” her return to politics after a break—capturing how Greene’s resignation has cracked open a visible rift inside the America First movement she helped carry into Congress.
