Home Homeland Safety Committee Chair Mark Inexperienced (R-Tenn.) speaks alongside Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after the Home handed finances reconciliation laws on the U.S. Capitol on Could 22, 2025.
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Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., introduced his official resignation from Congress on Friday, a transfer that was anticipated however one that would, a minimum of for now, shrink Republicans’ already slender majority within the House.
“To my constituents throughout Tennessee’s seventh District—thanks. The belief you place in me is humbling. I’ll look again fondly on my years of serving as your voice in Washington,” Inexperienced wrote in a put up on X.
Along with his resignation, Republicans are all the way down to a 219-212 majority within the Home, a minimum of till his seat within the solidly pink district is crammed.
His resignation will likely be efficient July 20, Fox Information reports from a letter Inexperienced despatched to Home Republican management.
Inexperienced’s resignation is a blow to Home Speaker Mike Johnson’s already slender majority within the decrease chamber, a proven fact that was on stark show this week as he was making an attempt to cross President Donald Trump’s “massive, lovely invoice.”
Johnson struggled to coalesce his convention across the megabill, and the slender majority gave him little wiggle room for defections. With Inexperienced’s resignation, Johnson’s may face an much more difficult highway forward.
Inexperienced, who chairs the Homeland Safety Committee, mentioned he was returning to the non-public sector to start out his personal enterprise, however didn’t present particulars concerning the enterprise.
“Whereas I can’t give the small print right here, I will likely be doing one thing particularly designed to assist America compete in opposition to the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], however this time in enterprise,” Inexperienced mentioned in a video on X.
Inexperienced was elected to serve in Congress in 2018, succeeding Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
Whereas his retirement has been anticipated — he said in June that he was stepping away from his position — it comes after Congress has skilled turnover amongst lawmakers in latest months, akin to Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who left his put up to serve within the Trump administration, earlier than he stepped down from that position.
One other Republican, Rep. Don Bacon, a centrist, also recently announced his retirement from Congress. Bacon’s retirement creates a chance for Democrats to win the Home seat representing Bacon’s Omaha, Nebraska, district.