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What MTG’s Departure Means for a Major MAGA Campaign Promise on Capitol Hill
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., announced on Nov. 21 she will be resigning her seat in the House of Representatives effective Jan. 5, 2026, it marked the culmination of a fusillade between the Georgia congresswoman and President Donald Trump and sent shock waves throughout the MAGA movement.
One underappreciated aspect of Greene’s departure from Capitol Hill is the effect it could have on Republicans in Congress voting on one of their key campaign promises.
In Congress, Greene has been one of the most persistent advocates for protecting children from physical mutilation in the name of “gender-affirming care” and was on track to potentially get a vote on a piece of legislation that sought to ban the practice for minors. That bill, titled the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would make it a felony to perform body-mutilating gender-transition procedures on minors by amending preexisting federal statutes criminalizing female genital mutilation to include these procedures.
Greene had introduced the Protect Children’s Innocence Act in previous sessions of Congress with some differences, but the current version of this bill somewhat reflects the executive order issued by Trump just days into his second term.
The order, titled “Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” declared that “it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.” Under this policy, Trump directed the Department of Justice to “prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation”
Greene reintroduced the current version of the Protect Children’s Innocence Act in May to reflect the aspirations of the Trump administration. Since, the bill has made its way through the House Judiciary Committee and is now poised for a vote on the floor. For the past few weeks, rumors have been flying around Capitol Hill that Greene’s bill would be getting that vote, with some suggesting that House GOP leadership had even promised the Georgia congresswoman a vote on the bill before year’s end.
But the rift between Greene and the president, and now Greene’s resignation, have left many on Capitol Hill asking what comes next for the legislation.
Greene’s resignation announcement came in the form of a 10-minute video statement posted on X.
“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.,” Greene said toward the beginning of her statement before launching into a broadside against how Republicans have managed their majority this Congress.
“Almost one year into our majority, the legislature has been mostly sidelined,” Greene continued. “We endured an eight week shutdown, wrongly resulting in the House not working for the entire time. And we are entering campaign season, which means all courage leaves and only safe campaign re-election mode is turned on in the House of Representatives.”
My message to Georgia’s 14th district and America.Thank you. pic.twitter.com/tSoHCeAjn1— Marjorie Taylor Greene ?? (@mtgreenee) November 22, 2025
Greene also expressed her disappointment with Trump, who pulled his endorsement of the Peach State congresswoman on Nov. 14. “Republicans will likely lose the midterms and, in turn, be expected to defend the president against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me.”
In his post pulling the rug out from underneath Greene, Trump said on Truth Social that the congresswoman is a “ranting Lunatic” who “has gone Far Left.”
Listing his administration’s accomplishments, with “No Men in Women’s Sports or Transgender for Everyone” among them, the president said, “All I see ‘Wacky’ Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!” the president wrote.
“It’s all so absurd and completely unserious, I refuse to be a battered wife, hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene said in her Nov. 21 statement. “I have supported President Trump with too much of my precious time, too much of my own money, and fought harder for him even when almost all other Republicans turned their back and denounced him,” Greene continued, “but I don’t worship or serve Donald Trump.”
Trump’s reference to “No Men in Women’s Sports” is based on a Feb. 5 executive order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” which directed federal agencies, namely the DOJ and the Department of Education, to ensure that participation in women’s sports is based on sex and not chosen gender identity.
The House has passed a piece of legislation, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025, that has a similar effect. This bill is the only major vote the lower chamber has taken on the issue of radical transgenderism, despite the president’s other executive actions and the centrality of the issue in the 2024 campaign (remember “Kamala is for they/them”?).
Which helps explain why the potential for Greene’s bill getting a vote on the House floor was a big deal. While it is unlikely it will garner enough support to break the filibuster in the Senate—the Senate version of the women sports bill, for example, failed 51-45—the point of these votes is to get Democrats on record voting in favor of the mutilation of children, and use those votes to apply pressure on Democrats to either pass these bills or jeopardize their reelection.
The dirty secret in Washington, however, is that our representatives have a general disdain for voting.
Will there be a last-minute push to vote on Greene’s legislation in December? This seems unlikely given Congress is currently focused on appropriations and Obamacare subsidies. The question then becomes, in lieu of a vote on the Greene bill, what is the GOP’s plan to address the issue of radical transgenderism in 2026?
Luckily for Republicans in Congress, there are plenty of bills for them to choose from. Republican Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Greg Steube of Florida, Doug LaMalfa of California, and Bob Onder of Missouri all have bills to address the mutilation of minors. Onder also has a bill he’s pushing with aligned senators, such as Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., called the Chloe Cole Act, which seeks to end these gender transition procedures for minors and provides a private right of action for the children and parents affected by these medical abuses.
The bad news, however, is that these bills are showing little if any movement.
The Chloe Cole Act, however, seems like the most likely alternative to Greene’s bill that could move in the House in the coming months. The pressure is on GOP leadership and the committee of jurisdiction, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, to ensure that the American people see where Republicans and Democrats stand on the issue of child mutilation come the 2026 midterms.
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