Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign from Congress in January, the Republican firebrand announced on Friday, following her high-profile public falling out with President Donald Trump over the Epstein files.
“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 wrote in a statement.
“It’s all so absurd and completely unserious,” she added. “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
Greene’s final day in office will be January 5, she added, well before the 2026 midterm elections begin.
The Independent has contacted the White House for comment.
Greene, previously one of the president’s closest allies and biggest supporters in Congress, has been locked in a heated public spat with Trump in recent days over a variety of issues ranging from healthcare to affordability. Though none have provoked Trump’s ire like her stance on the Epstein scandal.
Earlier this month, Greene accused Trump of a “huge miscalculation” by not doing more to release the government’s remaining files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, prompting Trump to brand the Georgia Republican a “ranting lunatic” and announce he would support a primary challenge against her.
Greene was also one of a small group of Republicans in the House who allowed a proposal to move forward to force the government to release more Epstein files. This paved the way for an outpouring of pressure that culminated in Trump this week signing a bill to release the files, after months of resistance and attacking GOP supporters of the effort as “stupid.”
The entire process marked a rare rebellion from within the party against Trump, who has typically been able to set the agenda for his supporters in Congress.
Greene’s outlook on America was pretty bleak in Friday’s announcement.
“No matter which way the political pendulum swings, Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman,” the congresswoman wrote.
She said she “never fit in” while working in Washington as a representative of the “common American.”
“When the common American people finally realize and understand…that not one elected leader like me is able to stop Washington’s machine from gradually destroying our country, and instead the reality is that they…possess the real power over Washington, then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.
“Until then I’m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead,” Greene wrote.
Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who led the bipartisan effort to release the Epstein files, said he’d miss Greene “tremendously.”
“I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I’ll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be,” Massie wrote on X.
Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, a staunch supporter of the president, criticized Greene for resigning ahead of the midterms.
“So she’s deliberately trying to make it so that Republicans are down a vote to screw Trump over ahead of 2026,” Loomer wrote on X. “She will probably get a deal with CNN or MSDNC to s***talk Trump all day throughout the midterms. She wants the Democrats to win.”
The Independent has contacted Greene’s office for comment, including regarding how her decision will affect the GOP ahead of the 2026 election.
