Greene confirmed she will resign her seat on January 5, 2026.
Washington, DC, November 22, 2025- BNN Web Staff- Far-right U.S. lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene announced on Friday that she will step down from Congress, just a week after President Donald Trump withdrew his backing for the once-loyal ally.
In an online video message, the 51-year-old Republican from Georgia — first elected in 2020 — said she had “always been despised in Washington, D.C., and never fit in,” adding that she did not want her supporters or family to suffer through a bitter primary fight initiated by the very president she had long defended.
Greene confirmed she will resign her seat on January 5, 2026.
The congresswoman had been one of the most prominent faces of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. However, Trump abruptly abandoned her last week, calling her “‘Wacky’ Marjorie” before escalating his criticism on Truth Social, where he labelled her a “lightweight” and even a “traitor” to the Republican Party.
Following the public fallout, Greene said she had become the target of threats.
Her resignation marks the clearest sign yet of growing fractures within the MAGA movement, which has been unsettled by strong Democratic gains in recent off-year elections and Trump’s headline-making White House meeting with left-wing New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Internal tensions have also deepened over Trump’s shifting stance on the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender with ties to numerous powerful figures.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked, and exploited by wealthy, influential 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.
