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Associated Press

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of US President Donald Trump who later became a critic, has said she is resigning from Congress in January.
Greene, in a more than 10-minute video posted online, explained her decision on Friday and said she was “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and just never fit in”.
Greene’s resignation followed a public fallout with Trump in recent months, as the congresswoman criticised him for his stance on files related to Jeffrey Epstein, along with foreign policy and healthcare.
Trump branded her a “traitor” and “wacky”, and said he would endorse a challenger against her when she ran for re-election next year.
She said her last day would be January 5, 2026.
On Friday, Trump said that Greene’s announcement that she was resigning from the House of Representatives was “great news for the country”, ABC News reported.
“I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great,” ABC News quoted Trump as saying in an interview.
“Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know but I think it’s great. I think she should be happy,” Trump said when asked if Greene had given him a heads up.
Greene was one of the most vocal and visible supporters of Trump’s Make America Great Again politics, and she embraced some of his unapologetic political style.
Her break with him was a notable fissure in his grip over conservatives, particularly his most ardent base. But her decision to step down in the face of his opposition put her on the same track as many of the more moderate establishment Republicans before her who went crosswise with Trump.

Greene had been closely tied to the Republican president since she launched her political career five years ago.
In her video on Friday, she underscored her long-time loyalty to Trump except on a few issues and said it was “unfair and wrong” that he attacked her for disagreeing.
“Loyalty should be a two-way street and we should be able to vote our conscience and represent our district’s interest, because our job title is literally ‘representative’,” she said.
Greene swept to office at the forefront of Trump’s Maga movement and swiftly became a lightning rod on Capitol Hill for her often beyond mainstream views.
As she embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory and appeared with white supremacists, Greene was opposed by party leaders but welcomed by Trump. He called her “a real WINNER!”
Yet over time she proved a deft legislator, having aligned herself with then-Republican Party leader Kevin McCarthy, who would go on to become House speaker. She was a trusted voice on the right flank, until McCarthy was ousted in 2023.
While there has been an onslaught of lawmakers from both parties heading for the exits ahead of next fall’s midterm elections, as the House struggles through an often chaotic session, Greene’s announced retirement will ripple throughout the ranks – and raise questions about her next moves.

Greene was first elected to the House in 2020. She initially planned to run in a competitive district in northern Atlanta’s suburbs, but relocated to the much more conservative 14th District in Georgia’s northwest corner.
She showed a penchant for harsh rhetoric and conspiracy theories even before her election, suggesting a 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas was a coordinated attack to spur support for new gun restrictions. In 2018, she endorsed the idea that the US government perpetrated the September 11 attacks, and mused that a “so-called” plane had hit the Pentagon.
Greene argued in 2019 that Representatives Ilhan Omar, Democrat-Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, Democrat-Michigan, both Muslim women, were not “official” members of Congress because they used Korans rather than Bibles in their swearing-in ceremonies.
Greene was once a sympathiser with QAnon, an online network that believes a global cabal of Satan-worshipping cannibals, including US government leaders, operates a child sex trafficking ring. She eventually distanced herself, saying she got “sucked into some of the things I had seen on the internet”.
Additional reporting by Reuters


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US President Donald Trump says Greene’s resignation is ‘great news for the country’, according to ABC News


US President Donald Trump says Greene’s resignation is ‘great news for the country’, according to ABC News.


Marjorie Taylor Greene, ex-Trump loyalist, says to resign from Congress

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}US President Donald Trump says Greene’s resignation is ‘great news for the country’, according to ABC News

US President Donald Trump says Greene’s resignation is ‘great news for the country’, according to ABC News