Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), once seen as one of Donald Trump’s most unshakeable loyalists, announced last week that she will resign from Congress in January. Greene made it clear in her resignation statement that she’s unhappy and disappointed with Donald Trump, and even gave interviews in which she expressed regret for practicing divisive politics in the past.
Now, it appears, other Republicans in Congress are unhappy with the state of affairs and could be headed out the door as well. And it has to do with the White House not giving Congress much room to govern. Reporter Jake Sherman wrote, in fact, that “a few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.”
>@PunchbowlNews AM: WHAT MTG GOT RIGHT@mtgreenee, who will retire from Congress in 42 days, announced the end of her House career Friday night in a manifesto, of sorts, that sounded many of the notes of concern we hear about President Donald Trump’s second term.
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— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 24, 2025
“This entire White House team has treated ALL members like garbage. ALL,” an anonymous senior Republican in the House told Sherman of Punchbowl News. “And Mike Johnson has let it happen because he wanted it to happen. That is the sentiment of nearly all — appropriators, authorizers, hawks, doves, rank and file. The arrogance of this White House team is off-putting to members who are run roughshod and threatened. They don’t even allow little wins like announcing small grants or even responding from agencies. Not even the high profile, the regular rank and file random members are more upset than ever. Members know they are going into the minority after the midterms.”
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The anonymous member of Congress went on to predict that “more explosive early resignations are coming. It’s a tinder box. Morale has never been lower. Mike Johnson will be stripped of his gavel, and they will lose the majority before this term is out.”
It would likely require many Republicans to quit, and for Democrats to win the subsequent special elections, for the GOP to lose their majority during the current Congress. The GOP currently has a six-seat House majority.
“The idea that Republicans could lose their majority this Congress is no longer far-fetched. If Johnson were to lose another House Republican in the middle of this term to retirement, death or illness, there’s a decent chance that the GOP can end up in the minority at some point in 2026,” Sherman writes.
