Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced on Friday that she will resign from Congress, a stunning development that has sent a shockwave through Washington — and through a Republican Party already wobbling under internal feuds and Trump loyalty tests. Her decision caps a dramatic and very public split from the man who once championed her rise, landing just a week after President Trump un-endorsed his one-time ally.
“I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms,” she said in a statement posted to X. Her last day will be Jan. 5, 2026.
For someone who built her political identity around fierce devotion to Donald Trump, Greene’s exit marks a stunning end to a once-symbiotic alliance. She used her resignation announcement to walk readers through that history — and the moment it began to crumble.
“I will never forget the day I had to leave my mother’s side as my father had brain surgery to remove cancerous tumors in order to fly to Washington DC to defend President Trump and vote NO against the Democrat’s second impeachment in 2021,” she said. “My poor father and my poor mother, it was way too much.”
That loyalty, she argued, was never returned. Over the past year, Greene increasingly broke with Trump on foreign policy and, most recently, on her push to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files — a move that set off a political landmine.
“Loyalty should be a two way street,” she said.
In her telling, that fight was the final straw. “Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked by and used by rich and powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene said.
Her resignation closes out one of the most chaotic chapters of the GOP’s Trump era. Greene arrived in Congress as a lightning rod, survived controversies that would’ve sunk most politicians, and became a MAGA celebrity in her own right. Now, with her departure, the party loses one of its loudest voices — and gains a glaring reminder of just how quickly loyalty in Trump’s orbit can turn into collateral damage.
