Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District Rep. Mark Green will resign from the U.S. House of Representatives, taking a private-sector job “that was too exciting to pass up.”
The Republican said in a statement Monday evening that he will resign “as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package” — legislation termed the “Big, Beautiful Bill” by President Donald Trump.
“It was the honor of a lifetime to represent the people of Tennessee in Congress,” Green says in his statement. “They asked me to deliver on the conservative values and principles we all hold dear, and I did my level best to do so.”
According to Politico, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson expects a final vote on the bill that would cut billions in funding from Medicaid, strip funding for public broadcasting and increase the national deficit by $2.4 trillion around July 4.
Green, a U.S. Army veteran and West Point graduate, has represented Tennessee's 7th — which was redrawn in 2022 to include parts of Nashville — since 2018, and currently serves as the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
Incumbent Republican changes mind after call from Trump
He counts among his top accomplishments his role in leading the impeachment of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The day after Mayorkas was impeached by the House in February 2024, Green announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection before changing his mind two weeks later — in part due to a call from Trump, and after saying “our country — and our Congress — is broken beyond most means of repair.” Green has also been plagued by scandal in the past year, thanks to a high-profile divorce and allegations of an extramarital affair.
“Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump’s border security measures and priorities make it through Congress,” Green says in his statement. “By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire, and there will be a special election to replace me.”
It’s unclear at this time who will run for the seat. Green defeated Democratic challenger and former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry in 2024 by roughly 21 percentage points.
