A stalwart Trump loyalist is now bucking her party — and her president. Here’s why

When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., ran for Congress in 2020, President Donald Trump called her a “future Republican star.”

Greene, 51, has been a vocal supporter of Trump throughout her political career. The congresswoman supported the president’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and even backed down from launching a potential Senate campaign at Trump’s request.

In recent months, however, the Georgia Republican has been bucking her party — and her president — on several issues.

Greene criticized the Trump administration’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2025, saying that it felt like an attempt to please “neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities.”

She also has broken with the president on the matter regarding disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and has called for the release of documents related to the man who had been charged with sex trafficking crimes. While Greene has pushed for the files to be released, Trump, who had a close relationship with the now-deceased Epstein in the past, has called the situation a “hoax.”

Greene has also split with her own party on several issues. While several Republicans have supported Israel’s campaign against Gaza, Greene accused the country of committing genocide. In recent days, she accused the GOP of not having a plan for healthcare.

“The reality is they never talk about it. And that committee working on, say, health insurance and the industry, that doesn’t happen in a [secure facility]. It’s not a major secret,” Greene said to NBC News.

The bucking of both her party and the president has reportedly caught the attention of Trump, with NBC News reporting Wednesday that the 47th president called two senior Republicans to ask: “What’s going on with Marjorie?”

What’s “going on,” Greene told NBC News, is that she is doing her job to represent the voters of Georgia’s 14th congressional district.

“I’m not some sort of blind slave to the president, and I don’t think anyone should be,” Greene said to the outlet. “I serve in Congress. We’re a separate branch of the government, and I’m not elected by the president. I’m not elected by anyone that works in the White House. I’m elected by my district. That’s who I work for, and I got elected without the president’s endorsement, and, you know, I think that has served me really well.”

When she first ran for Congress in 2020, Greene did not receive Trump’s support in the primary. Since then, however, she has become a well-recognized supporter of Trump.

Republicans who spoke with NBC News said that Greene has become more disillusioned with politics and her own party. The sources told the outlet that the congresswoman felt slighted after the White House talked her out of running for the Senate.

Despite her reported disillusionment with the GOP, Greene said she is still a supporter of Trump, NBC News reports. But just because she is part of Trump’s party, that doesn’t mean she is going to say yes to everything the president says.

“So I get to be independent as a Republican,” she told NBC News, “and I think what helps [Trump] the most is when he has people that are willing to be honest with him and not just tell him what they think he wants to hear.”