U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene to Resign from Office

What Happened?

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former high-profile ally of President Trump, announced she will resign from Congress effective January 5, 2026. Ms. Greene, who has served as a Representative from Georgia’s fourteenth congressional district since 2021, released a statement blaming aggressive rhetoric being directed against her by the president, leading to security threats, and saying she did not want to face a difficult primary in 2026.

President Trump responded to her resignation by telling NBC News it won’t be easy for her to revive her career in politics, but ‘I’d love to see that.’ 

Why it Matters

Representative Greene was among a vocal chorus of Republicans calling for the release of the Epstein files, even threatening to read the names of everyone in those files aloud into the Congressional record. Members of Congress are immune from prosecution for official statements they make on the record, and Ms. Greene’s publicity helped to spur Congress to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which mandates the release of all the Epstein files.

The Epstein case caused a political split among Congressional Republicans, and between advocates of releasing the case files and the White House. For a long time, President Trump advocated against the release of the files, only to change his stance after it was clear an overwhelming majority of Congress planned to vote for their release. Congresswoman Greene was among a group of reps who advocated for the release of the Epstein files from the beginning, so the passage of the act was a major political victory for her.

In recent weeks, Congresswoman Greene underwent an attempted political transformation, apologizing for being part of toxic politics and becoming a vocal critic of the Trump Administration. Since no one can know what goes on inside the mind of another person, it is impossible to say whether her sudden change of heart was genuine or a political calculation. But either way, her fallout with President Trump appears to have sealed her political fate. 

Ms. Greene claims to have received threats against her personal safety, and she cited those threats as one of the reasons she was resigning from Congress. Threats against public officials have been on the rise in the past two years, from the arson attack against Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to the assassination attempt against President Trump. The increase in politically motivated violence is a worrying trend, and one that is fueled by hyperbolic rhetoric coming from elected officials. 

How it Affects You

With the majority margin in the U.S. House of Representatives already thin, the resignation of Ms. Greene will open the contest for a seat in a nominally conservative district in 2026. Whether her political alternation was real or not will likely be answered by whether she runs for the Senate in Georgia or the presidency in 2028.