By now you’ve all heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning her seat in Congress, a decision she says will make her last day January 5, 2026. It comes at a time when both parties are enduring fresh rounds of infighting and the Uniparty is doing what it always does—scrambling to keep a grip on money, power, and the revolving doors that feed both.
For many of us, this is a disappointing development. MTG has been among the loudest and staunchest supporters of President Trump, but recent public disputes—especially over the Epstein files—have opened a visible fissure between two people who used to move in lockstep.
President Trump responded in classic Trump fashion: he revoked his endorsement and labeled the three-term congresswoman a traitor. That’s not exactly a quiet breakup. It’s a scorched-earth press release.
Watching this unfold, I can’t help thinking about the midterms. This kind of distraction—the sideshow element, the personality collision—doesn’t help anyone. It slows down what the administration needs to be laser-focused on: the economy, and making it work for everyone who isn’t sitting comfortably inside a D.C. bubble.
I’ll also say this plainly: I find it irritating when members of Congress resign in the middle of their term. They campaigned for the job. They asked voters to hire them. There’s a promise baked into that handshake. You don’t just walk off the field because the game got ugly.
If you have a medical issue or a family emergency, I get that. I can accept that. But leaving to take a lucrative job like Mark Green of Tennessee did, or quitting because politics is nasty? I’m sorry—neither passes muster. If you campaign for the job, you should do the job.
And speaking of lucrative gigs, plenty of people are wondering what’s next for MTG. Will she land on TV as a pundit? Will she reinvent herself as a louder opponent of the President? Maybe. Maybe not. We’ll have to wait and see. But nobody should pretend those aren’t the obvious landing spots for high-profile political exits these days.
To be fair, there were many points she made in her announcement on X that I do agree with, even if I believe resigning is the wrong move.
On the topic of running for President—as has been rumored—MTG promptly shot that down and ridiculed those pushing or reporting the idea.
In another X post she wrote, in part, “The Political Industrial Complex has destroyed our country and will never allow someone like me or you to rise to power and actually solve the crises that plague all of us. That would go against its business model.”
And one last thing on this topic from MTG—what she says matters most going forward.
President Trump on Saturday appeared to soften his tone, saying he hopes MTG will return to politics someday, though he added that it would be a hard road if she does.
According to sources here, Greene was already staring down a brutal primary. Internal polling reportedly showed her as much as 25 points underwater in a challenge—territory that’s nearly impossible to recover from. On that point, I guess we’ll never know what might have happened.
Now, I want to shift gears to the bigger controversy of the past week: six Democrats calling for those serving in the military to ignore orders from the Commander in Chief.
It was an outrageous video featuring Senators Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly, plus four members of Congress—all with previous military service or ties to the intelligence committee—which only made the spectacle worse. When people who should understand chain of command flirt with open insubordination, that’s not protest. That’s a direct hit on the structure that keeps the country secure.