Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Friday announced her resignation from Congress as of Jan. 5 and called Washington a “political industrial complex” that does nothing for voters. File Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI | License Photo
Nov. 21 (UPI) — Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will resign from Congress effective Jan. 5 due to her frustration with Washington politics that she said change nothing.
Greene announced her pending resignation in a social media post early Friday evening.
“I’ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I’ve always been despised in Washington, D.C., and never fit in,” Greene said in a four-page statement.
She called the nation’s capital a “political industrial complex” in which Republicans and Democrats compete to convince voters to hate the other party more, “and the results are the same.”
No matter which political party wields the most power, “nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman,” Green said, adding that “the debt goes higher.”
“Corporate and global interests remain Washington’s sweethearts,” Greene said. “American jobs continue to be replaced, whether it’s by illegal labor or legal labor by visas or just shipped overseas.”
She said large corporations continue to buy up small businesses as the dollar continues to decline in spending power.
“Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars always fund foreign wars, foreign aid and foreign interests,” Greene said, adding: “The average American family can no longer survive on a single bread-winner’s income as both parents must work in order to simply survive.”
She said many young adults feel hopeless about the future and “don’t think they will ever realize the American dream, which breaks my heart.”
Greene also took a thinly veiled swipe at President Donald Trump by saying she ran for Congress in 2020 and “fought every single day, believing that ‘Make America Great Again’ meant ‘America first.'”
“There is no ‘plan to save the world’ or insane 4D chess games being played,” Greene added.
Seven days ago, Trump withdrew his support for one of his past closest allies, calling her “wacky” and would back a candidate against her next year.
Greene, who has served in a Republican-dominated House district in northwest Georgia since January 2021, has sided with Democrats on two issues — enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, and the release of Department of Justice files involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including Trump’s relationship with him.
She expressed frustration with introducing bills that are never brought up for consideration despite the Republican majority in the House, despite echoing the president’s executive orders.
They include measures calling for a new census that only counts U.S. citizens, making English the nation’s official language and making it a felony to “medically trans a minor.”
Greene said she has received numerous death threats and a never-ending slew of lawfare, personal attacks, lies and slander.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered housewife ‘ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” she said.
“The Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart” and “gradually destroying the country,” Greene continued.
She said the American people “possess the real power over Washington” and that she is willing to stand by their side to rebuild it when they finally realize it.
“Until then, I’m going back to the people I love, to live life to the fullest, as I always have, and look forward to a new path ahead,” Greene wrote.