{"id":307928,"date":"2025-11-22T23:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307928\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T23:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T23:32:05","slug":"politicians-shocked-by-marjorie-taylor-greenes-surprise-resignation-announcement-marjorie-taylor-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/307928\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians shocked by Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s surprise resignation announcement | Marjorie Taylor Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u2019s surprise resignation from Congress<\/a> late on Friday, saying she refused to be a \u201cbattered wife\u201d following her public fallout with Donald Trump, has been slammed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, the Democratic congresswoman and Greene\u2019s frequent sparring partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on her Instagram account, and criticized her voting record on healthcare.<\/p>\n

Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective 5 January, in a 10-minute video post outlining her unhappiness with Republicans<\/a> on issues including the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files in the government\u2019s possession, US financing of foreign conflicts, Trump\u2019s decision to potentially back a candidate against her, and the cost of living and healthcare.<\/p>\n

After her service to Trump, she said she objected to being \u201cexpected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI refuse to be a \u2018battered wife\u2019 hoping it all goes away and gets better,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n

But Ocasio-Cortez said Greene \u201cis saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she\u2019s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

Greene voted in the summer for cuts to Medicaid and the reduction of enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, but then in October criticized the ACA cuts as premiums soared.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez also repeated some of her criticism of shares bought by Greene earlier this year before Trump said he was pausing tariffs. Greene has denied<\/a> any impropriety in her stock trading.<\/p>\n

Kentucky Republican congressman Thomas Massie, who has also taken public stands against Trump including over the Epstein files release, said<\/a> on X that he was \u201cvery sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie. I\u2019ll miss her tremendously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Massie added that Greene \u201cembodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there\u2019s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early on Saturday, Trump also reacted to Greene\u2019s announcement, posting on Truth Social<\/a> that \u201cMarjorie \u2018Traitor\u2019 Brown\u201d had decided to call it \u201cquits\u201d because of \u201cPLUMMETING Poll Numbers, and not wanting to face a Primary Challenger with a strong Trump Endorsement (where she would have no chance of winning!) \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also said that Greene\u2019s political relationship with Massie \u201cdid not help her\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some reason, primarily that I refused to return her never ending barrage of phone calls, Marjorie went BAD,\u201d he added. \u201cNevertheless, I will always appreciate Marjorie, and thank her for her service to our Country!\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump later told NBC News<\/a> he would like to see Greene resume her political career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be easy for her\u201d to revive her career in politics, he said, adding: \u201cI\u2019d love to see that.\u201d In the meantime, \u201cshe\u2019s got to take a little rest\u201d.<\/p>\n

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David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland school massacre in 2018 who briefly served as a co-vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee and tussled with Greene over gun control, posted<\/a>: \u201cSee ya!\u201d on X.<\/p>\n

Greene was seen in a 2019 video following a then-18-year-old Hogg outside Capitol Hill, calling him a \u201ccoward\u201d for not defending his stance on guns and accusing him of \u201cusing\u201d kids to pass gun control laws. Hogg and other Parkland survivors used the video as evidence to call for Greene\u2019s resignation when she was appointed to the House Republican committee in 2021.<\/p>\n

Barbara Comstock, a former Republican House member and a Trump critic, lauded Greene\u2019s decision on social media. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t want to be a Republican \u2018battered wife\u2019 taking Trump\u2019s abuse and getting death threats and pretending it\u2019s all ok only to end up in the minority. Good for her,\u201d Comstock posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greene\u2019s decision to leave Congress came soon after another plot twist was playing out in the White House between Trump and New York City\u2019s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, who spoke of their shared commitment to the future of the nation\u2019s most populous city.<\/p>\n

Trump, who had in the past called Mamdani a \u201c100% Communist Lunatic\u201d and a \u201ctotal nut job\u201d, spoke of how impressed he was with the man who had called his administration \u201cauthoritarian\u201d and said he anticipates a productive relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect to be helping him, not hurting him,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office after a private meeting on Friday afternoon that lasted under an hour. \u201cBecause I want New York City to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani said that he appreciated that during their meeting they \u201chad focused not on places of disagreement, which there are many, and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Both said they had shared ideas about affordability and developing new housing in the city. \u201cSome of his ideas are really the same ideas that I have,\u201d the president said of Mamdani about inflationary issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s surprise resignation from Congress late on Friday, saying she refused to be a \u201cbattered wife\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-307928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}