Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Surprise Resignation from Congress, Saying She Refuses to Be a ‘Battered Wife’ to Trump

The Georgia congresswoman announced that she would resign her seat in a video posted to X on Nov. 21

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from her post as representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district in 2026.

Greene made the surprise announcement in a lengthy video statement posted to her X account on Friday, Nov. 21, adding that her resignation will be effective January 5, 2026. In the video, Greene slammed the political gridlock and partisanship that she says has impeded her ability to achieve her legislative goals.

Greene went on to describe the way that she has been treated by members of her own party as “unfair” and “wrong,” and said that she did not want to be expected to defend Trump, who she says “tried to destroy me.”

“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 said. “And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me. It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a “battered wife” hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

Greene did not clarify why she believes Trump will face an impeachment trial.

Greene criticized her fellow Republicans for their participation in the longest government shutdown in American history, and touted her conservative voting record on issues like gun rights and abortion, border security, and “COVID tyrannical insanity.”

The resignation comes exactly one week after President Donald Trump announced that he would withdraw his support of Greene, who he described as a “ranting lunatic.”

Greene’s split from Trump and her fellow Republicans has been months in the making. In June, she broke with her party to oppose artificial intelligence (AI) provisions in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” and admitted she never read the legislation. She also opposed Trump’s decision to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites that same month.

“I’m sick of funding foreign aid and foreign countries and foreign everything,” Greene wrote in a statement to her X account on June 22. “I want to fund American interests and issues.”

Greene also pushed repeatedly for the release of the Epstein files, despite the president’s prior opposition to the documents being made public. On Nov. 19, Trump said that he’d signed legislation ordering the files’ release, though no timeline for that release has been announced as of yet.