US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign after rupture with Trump

US Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, a longtime ally of Donald Trump who recently had a dramatic falling out with the president, says she is resigning from the House of Representatives effective January 5.

“Loyalty should be a two way street” while Congress “has mostly been sidelined” under the Trump administration, Greene posts in a lengthy resignation statement on social media.

My official statement. pic.twitter.com/x48zEugmPV

— Marjorie Taylor Greene ???????? (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025

In a video posted online, the 51-year-old Republican congresswoman from Georgia elected in 2020 says she has “always been despised in Washington DC and never fit in.”

Greene says she does not want her supporters and family 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.

“I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026,” she says.

Greene had previously been a standard-bearer of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, but the president announced he was withdrawing all support for “‘Wacky’ Marjorie” on November 7.

He followed up again the next morning with multiple posts on his Truth Social platform attacking Greene as a “lightweight” and even a “traitor” to the Republican Party.

The former key political ally to Trump subsequently said she was being targeted by a wave of threats.

The shock move by Greene is the clearest sign yet of a growing split in MAGA world, in churn over strong Democratic victories in this month’s off-year elections, and Trump’s chummy White House meeting earlier Friday with leftist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

The movement has been particularly riven over Trump’s flip-flop on the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose web of contacts allegedly included several American elites.

“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich 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 says.

Amid her feud with Trump, Greene suggested on Sunday that Israel was pressuring the White House not to release the full files on Epstein.

In an interview on CNN, Greene was asked about a post on X a day earlier in which she wrote: “It really makes you wonder what is in those files and who and what country is putting so much pressure on him?” alongside a graphic boasting that she had received zero campaign funds from the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby.

“I think it’s the question that many Americans are asking, especially when we saw information recently come out in these e-mails that the Oversight Committee that I serve on has released,” Greene responded during the interview, about the growing focus on the alleged sex trafficker, who died of suicide in prison in 2019.

“And we saw Jeffrey Epstein with ties to Ehud Barak. We saw him making business deals with them, also business deals that involved the Israeli government, and seems to have led into their intel agencies. And I think the right question to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?” the congresswoman continued.

There is no substantial evidence of any ties between Epstein and Israeli intelligence. Allegations that Epstein has ties to the Mossad have circulated for years based on an array of disparate connections: The fact that he was Jewish; his visits to Israel, among many other countries; and his friendship with former prime minister Ehud Barak, one of many high-profile figures he associated with, including Trump himself.