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It’s Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Last Day In Congress And We’re Sorry, Not Sorry, To See Her Go

January 5, 2026

MTG can claim support for victims of Jeffrey Epstein, but her legacy is marked mostly by the harmful policies and rhetoric she unleashed on the LGBTQ+ community.

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It was a November surprise: Donald J. Trump devotee and Republican Congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, announced that Jan. 5, 2026 would be her last day in Congress. Her reasons for exiting the inferno were multiple. The prospect of a “hateful primary against me by the president,” and “likely” Republican loss of the midterms. Clashes with Trump, in particular over the Epstein files. The prerequisite ‘want to spend more time with family’ (subtext: I’ve done all the damage I can do, and now I’m dashing out and cashing in).

The break-up wasn’t pretty. In Trump’s final moments of pulling out (his endorsement), he called MTG a “ranting lunatic” – a statement difficult to dispute. And while she can rightly lay claim to a few good moments of standing alongside the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene will be mostly remembered for the hateful tornadic activity she conjured, specifically, targeting the LGBTQ+ community.

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In the whirlwind of her departure, as one of her final acts of Congress, the former MAGA darling threw her muscle into the “Protect Children’s Innocence Act,” a bill she nursed since 2022. H.R.3492 aims to criminalize gender-affirming medical care to minors, with penalties of up to 10 years in prison to providers. The bill, described by the ACLU as having “immediate and devastating effects on the lives of transgender youth and their families across the country,” passed in the House on Dec. 17, 2025. While it advanced to the Senate, where it is expected to prove a failure, the entire spectacle has served as her crown jewel.

A sign outside Rep. Greene’s office as a Transgender Pride flag hangs outside Rep. Newman’s office on Capitol Hill (Al Drago/Getty Images)

MTG has earned a reputation as an extremist, prone to trolling the LGBTQ+ community. As GO has prior noted, she is particularly fixated on the trans community. She has called Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), the first out trans member of Congress, a “child predator” and “groomer.” Back in February, 2021, MTG had a meltdown over the proposed Equality Act, meant to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity nationally. She took to the House floor. “God created us male and female,” she said. “In his image, he created us. The Equality Act that we are to vote on this week destroys God’s creation… ”

MTG topped off that doomsday prediction by posting disturbing signage outside her office, directly across the hall from Illinois Rep. Marie Newman, whose daughter is trans.

MTG hangs a sign outside Rep. Greene’s office as a Transgender Pride flag hangs outside Rep. Newman’s office on Capitol Hill

Yet even while attacking the rights of others, MTG has played the victim. Her perceived oppressors include the “establishment Repubican Party” and their “paid shills” who in her mind are threatened by her uber-conservatism.

Some have described the Congresswoman’s departure as an excommunication. A woman who has served her purpose, now fit to be discarded from Trump’s orbit like a used wet rag. While MTG might try to cast herself as too good for MAGA, more “conservative and America first” than Trump, a champion of victims of sexual predation and the like – the fact is she has planted seeds of irreparable harm. For this alone, our outrage would be appropriate. But should we expend the energy? Perhaps the most healthy course of action as she self-expunges from her Capitol office: a collective exhale.

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