Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican days after a public feud with President Donald Trump.
Greene, who was one of Trump's Maga superstars in US politics, posted a video statement on social media announcing she would leave Congress on 5 January 2026.
The Republican was one of Trump's staunchest defenders in Congress, but her relentless calls for releasing files related to late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein led to a bitter public falling out with the president, who has since labelled her a "traitor".
"I refuse to be a 'battered wife' hoping it all goes away and gets better," she said in the video.
Trump, who had threatened to support a Republican challenger to unseat Greene, responded to her resignation by calling it "great news for the country" in an interview with ABC News.
Greene said in the announcement that she did "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 had been one of the loudest demanding the release of documents related to Epstein, an issue that once united Trump and his base but has become divisive.
Trump had spent months arguing that the issue was a distraction concocted by his political detractors to divert attention from his administration's achievements.
"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 said in her resignation letter.
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