Marjorie Taylor Greene

In February 2024, Marjorie Taylor Greene was named an impeachment manager for the Senate trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — the most institutionally serious assignment of her congressional career. The trial never happened. Three months later she tried to depose her own speaker. Eighteen months after that, she quit Congress altogether, the morning after the president who built her career called her a traitor. That arc — designated prosecutor, failed speaker-killer, early retiree — is the story of her final years in Washington, and it says more about the House’s chaos than any of the provocations she was famous for. (Associated Press)

From construction company to Congress

Greene was born Marjorie Taylor in Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1974. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, then went into the family firm Taylor Commercial, a construction and renovation company — she and her then-husband Perry Greene took it over in 2002. In 2012 she moved into fitness, opening a CrossFit gym that she expanded and eventually sold. (Al Jazeera)

Her interest in politics began in 2016, when she started writing online in support of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theories, according to NBC News. She was elected to represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in 2020 and took her seat in January 2021. She has three grown children. (Al Jazeera; Aberdeen News)

Stripped of committees in her first month

The House barely let her settle in. On February 4, 2021, it voted 230-199 to strip her of her seats on the Education and Labor and Budget committees over her past incendiary comments and apparent support for violence against Democrats — with 11 Republicans joining the vote. The move was described as unprecedented: removing a member’s committee assignments was usually reserved for lawmakers facing indictments or criminal investigations. Greene defended herself on the House floor, said she regretted her past remarks, but did not apologize. (WION)

Expelled from the Freedom Caucus

Her relationship with her own hardline flank broke in 2023. After a heated House-floor clash with fellow hardliner Rep. Lauren Boebert over Boebert’s bid to force a vote impeaching President Joe Biden, and after siding with Speaker Kevin McCarthy through his rocky tenure, the House Freedom Caucus voted her out in early July 2023. Caucus board member Rep. Andy Harris confirmed the vote to Politico, saying her McCarthy support and her vote on the debt-limit compromise “all … mattered.” Greene’s response was a shrug: “In Congress, I serve Northwest Georgia first, and serve no group in Washington.” (Reuters)

The Mayorkas impeachment-manager role

Then came the most consequential stretch of her career. After the House Homeland Security Committee’s months-long investigation of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over border management, it was a resolution from Greene that pushed the impeachment debate forward. The House impeached Mayorkas 214-213 on February 13, 2024 — the first Cabinet secretary impeached in nearly 150 years. The AP reported that Greene “will serve as an impeachment manager in a potential Senate trial.” She hugged Majority Leader Steve Scalise on the floor afterward and told reporters that senators “better pay attention to the American people and how they feel, and then they need to read our articles of impeachment.” (Associated Press)

But there was never a trial for her to manage. On April 17, 2024, the Senate dismissed both articles of impeachment — 51-48 and 51-49 — shutting down the proceedings before arguments even began, with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying the charges failed to meet the bar of high crimes and misdemeanors. Greene was designated a prosecutor in a case the Senate refused to hear. (Associated Press)

The failed motion to vacate

Three weeks after that dismissal, Greene turned on her own speaker. On May 8, 2024, she triggered her motion to vacate Mike Johnson — payback for advancing a foreign aid package for Ukraine — reading a list of “transgressions” on the House floor to boos from colleagues. Majority Leader Steve Scalise countered with a motion to table, and the House tabled Greene’s motion 359-43. Eleven Republicans voted to proceed with her effort, more than the eight who had ousted McCarthy the previous fall. (Associated Press)

The vote exposed how thin her support was. Trump — one of her biggest backers, who had given Johnson his nod at Mar-a-Lago — urged Republicans to table the motion, and Democrats led by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries voted to do so, with Jeffries saying it was time to “turn the page” on the GOP turmoil. Her ally Rep. Thomas Massie stood with her. On the Capitol steps afterward, Greene was defiant: “I’m proud of what I did today.” (Associated Press)

Chairing the DOGE subcommittee

By the end of 2024, Greene had found a role more suited to her brand. On November 21, she announced she would chair a new House Oversight subcommittee called Delivering on Government Efficiency, meant to work alongside the outside Department of Government Efficiency helmed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Her statement promised to “identify and investigate the waste, corruption, and absolutely useless parts of our federal government,” and she named one target first: the Pentagon, whose failed audits and unaccounted billions she said would earn bureaucrats “a pink slip.” (Beacon Journal)

The break with Trump and the resignation

The final rupture was with Trump himself. Through 2025, Greene openly criticized the administration: she backed Democratic efforts to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and said all of them should come out; she railed against the cost of living, saying Trump’s budget deserved credit on inflation but that “gaslighting the people and trying to tell them that prices have come down is not helping”; she warned her own adult children’s health insurance premiums would double in 2026 with no Republican plan; she became one of the first Republicans to call Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide; she opposed Trump’s military intervention in Iran in support of Israel, more weapons for Ukraine, and $20 billion of economic support for Argentina. (Al Jazeera)

On November 14, 2025, Trump withdrew his endorsement, called her “wacky” and a “ranting lunatic,” labeled her a “traitor,” and encouraged a primary challenge. Greene accused him of putting her life in danger and said she feared for her safety amid the resulting threats. (Al Jazeera; Aberdeen News)

A week later she announced her resignation in an online video. “I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026,” she said, explaining that she had “always been despised in Washington DC and never fit in” and did not want her supporters and family to endure “a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for.” Trump told ABC News her departure was “great news for the country.” Her parting line to supporters: “My self-worth is not defined by a man but instead by God, who created everything in existence.” (The Peninsula; Aberdeen News)

What this profile does not claim

• An exact birth date. Greene’s full date of birth (May 27, 1974) appears only in Wikipedia and content-farm biographies; the verified record confirms the year 1974 and Milledgeville, Georgia, and the profile states only that.
• An apology on the House floor in February 2021. Contemporaneous reporting says she expressed regret but did not apologize; a later wire reprint says she “later apologized.” The profile follows the contemporaneous account and does not resolve the conflict.
• Re-election margins for 2022 and 2024. Percentages circulate in low-quality biographies but no tier1 or tier2 source verified them in a full read; the profile says only that she was first elected in 2020 and still held the seat when she announced her resignation.
• What the DOGE subcommittee accomplished. The record documents its announcement and her chairmanship, not its work product.
• A Senate trial of Mayorkas. Greene was designated an impeachment manager, but the Senate dismissed the articles before arguments began — she never tried a case.
• Fifteen rather than eleven Republicans supporting the vacate motion. One wire summary claimed only 10 Republicans sided with her; the AP reported 11 voted to proceed. The profile uses the AP figure and does not merge the two counts.