(The Hill) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s shocking announcement that she is leaving Congress in January is still reverberating in Washington and beyond.
The news, delivered Friday in a lengthy statement, appears to have caught some people off guard — including President Donald Trump, whose feud with the Georgia Republican and the beef’s rippling effects played a role in her decision to resign. The president told ABC News on Friday that Greene, formerly one of Trump’s biggest supporters, did not notify him of her plans prior to the announcement.
“Nah, it doesn’t matter,” Trump told ABC’s Rachel Scott when she asked if Greene had given him a heads-up. “But I think it’s great. I think she should be happy.”
Trump also said Greene’s announcement was “great news for the country,” before later ripping her in a Truth Social post on Saturday morning. The president, though, softened his language on the former ally in comments to reporters outside the White House later that morning, saying while he “disagreed with her philosophy,” he thinks “she’s a nice person.”
Responses to Greene’s news have ranged in tone. Here are some reactions shared by politicians, officials and others since the Georgia Republican announced her plans.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.): “She’s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram story. “She is saying a lot but her action have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s still voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.): “I’m very sad for our country but so happy for my friend Marjorie,” Massie posted on the social platform X. “I’ll miss her tremendously. She embodies what a true Representative should be. Everyone should read her statement; there’s more honesty expressed in these four pages than most politicians will speak in a lifetime.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas): “I’m going to be honest… I didn’t see this coming but the threats that come with being on the opposite side of Trump ARE REAL!” Crockett wrote on X. “People need to wake up! Trump only knows how to use people up & then cast them aside when he’s done.”
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.): “I don’t know what to make of it. We need her vote to put the ObamaCare subsidies back in place because everyone’s premiums are going to be going up on Jan. 1,” Swalwell said on CNN. “She’s been an advocate actually.”
Democratic Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta: “Trump glazed Mamdani so hard Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Congress,” the Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair said on X, referring to the president’s friendly Friday meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani (D).
Georgia Democratic House candidate Shawn Harris: “Marjorie started talking about the same issues I’ve been raising because she saw they were resonating with the people of Northwest Georgia,” Harris, a retired Army general who lost against Greene in 2024, posted on X. “Folks here made it clear what matters: health care you can count on, real economic growth, and support for families. But the moment she shifted in that direction, her own party shut it down. They told her that talking about the real needs of this district wasn’t going to fly. And just like that, they pushed her out of the conversation.”
Political commentator Keith Olbermann: “I don’t like her, I don’t trust her, but god help me I’m beginning to respect her, and begin again to believe in the power of recovery,” Olbermann wrote on X.
Democratic activist David Hogg: “See ya!” the former DNC vice chair posted in response to Greene’s video announcement on X.