Tennessee Rep. Mark Green has officially resigned from Congress to take on an undisclosed new role, further tightening the GOP’s already razor-thin majority just one year before the high-stakes midterms next November.
“It’s with a heavy heart that I say farewell,” Green said in a statement. “To my constituents across Tennessee’s 7th District—thank you. The trust you put in me is humbling. I will look back fondly on my years of serving as your voice in Washington.”
“While I cannot give the details here, I will be doing something specifically designed to help America compete against the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], but this time in business,” Green explained in his resignation video.
The Tennessee Republican declined to provide details of his new gig in the private sector.
Shortly after announcing his intention to resign, Rep. Mark Green was reported by Notus to have been pitching business ventures in Guyana to lobbyists.
Green also chaired the powerful House Homeland Security Committee, which was instrumental in crafting the border security provisions included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that passed the House last week.
Last September, Green made national headlines when his wife filed for divorce, accusing him of having an affair with a woman who worked at Axios.
She later admitted to misidentifying the purported mistress, telling Politico, “I want to correct the record, because I misidentified someone in that message. My husband has never had a relationship with a reporter from Axios, and I regret having said that.”
The retired U.S. Army officer had previously said he would not seek reelection in the 2024 cycle, but reversed that decision just over two weeks later.
This comes as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has secured a substantial loan in preparation for next year’s midterm elections, as the party struggles with leadership and has little to demonstrate for its government shutdown efforts.
On Thursday, Politico reported on a filing the party mady with the Federal Election Commission concerning the $15 million loan.
“The national party committee framed the line of credit as an early investment to boost its candidates in New Jersey and Virginia earlier this month, and help build up state parties ahead of next year’s midterms. But the need for a loan still puts the DNC in sharp contrast with its GOP counterpart, the Republican National Committee, which was sitting on $86 million at the end of September,” the outlet said.
Politico noted the organization had taken out loans in the past, “although usually not this early in the cycle or of this magnitude all at once.”
The DNC reportedly spent over $15 million in 2025 to cover former Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign expenses.
Harris and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
The additional expenditure came after Harris’ campaign blew through about $1.5 billion in donations.
By comparison, President Trump over the summer touted how well the Republican Party was doing in terms of finances and donations.
The fundraising shortfalls are also hitting individual Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s fundraising, for instance, has slowed to a near standstill, sparking fresh speculation that he could face a serious primary challenge from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2026, Conservative Brief reported last month.
Federal Election Commission filings show the five-term New York Democrat raised just $133,000 during the last quarter — a sharp drop from his typical multi-million-dollar hauls and less than half of what he raised during the same period in his last election cycle, The New York Post reported.
The slowdown comes as Ocasio-Cortez, 36, raked in $4.5 million for her House reelection campaign during the same three-month period.
The Bronx and Queens congresswoman has refused to rule out a Senate run — or even a future presidential bid — raising concerns inside Democratic circles that she may soon target Schumer directly.