Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is about to depart Congress with an anti-Trump bang.
The MAGA firebrand-turned-critic of President Trump formally served her final day within the Home of Representatives on Monday after blasting the U.S. assault on Venezuela, which she framed as a betrayal of his promise to maintain the nation out of overseas navy entanglements.
“This is the same Washington playbook that we are so sick and tired of that doesn’t serve the American people, but actually serves the big corporations, the banks and the oil executives,” she advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
Greene, who introduced her resignation a couple of weeks in the past, has additionally damaged with Trump over his opposition to releasing all of the recordsdata associated to infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as nicely his failure to avert skyrocketing medical insurance premiums for tens of millions of People.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attends U.S. President Donald Trump’s deal with to a joint session of Congress in March 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Pictures)
Greene, 51, hasn’t stated if she could run for every other political workplace. Some have speculated she might run for Georgia governor and even president in 2028.
Her abrupt resignation leaves Republicans with a slender six-vote edge within the Home of Representatives, with two particular elections pending in deep-blue Democratic districts.
The GOP is nearly sure to retain Greene’s deep-red district in a particular election. However leaving the seat vacant might give Trump and Home Speaker Mike Johnson complications within the meantime, particularly if every other Republicans observe her to the Capitol Hill exits.
Greene’s cut up with Trump quantities to one of the vital stunning plot twists of his second time period.
The far right-wing lawmaker was one among his most outspoken loyalists since she first received election in 2020.
However Greene began taking a extra unbiased tack in Trump’s second time period.
Greene described Israel’s struggle in Gaza as a “genocide” towards Palestinians, and usually urged Trump to spend much less time and political capital on overseas conflicts.
Their budding feud dramatically worsened when she joined Democrats in demanding the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata, an effort that Trump derided as a liberal “hoax.”
The hassle grew to become an embarrassing black eye for Trump when each the Republican-controlled Home and Senate voted practically unanimously in favor of the transfer.
Greene additionally criticized Republican management over the latest federal authorities shutdown, saying the GOP wanted a plan to take care of expiring medical insurance subsidies that can have an effect on greater than 20 million People.
As Greene’s criticism escalated, Trump branded Greene as a “traitor” to the MAGA motion in November. Every week later, she introduced her resignation, efficient Monday.
