Homeland security chair to leave Congress after House votes on Trump agenda bill
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GOP Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, announced Monday that he intends to leave Congress after the House votes again on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package.
GOP Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, announced Monday that he intends to leave Congress after the House votes again on President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy package. “It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up,” the Tennessee Republican said in a statement Monday. “As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package.” Green will be resigning in the middle of the 119th Congress, and his term was set to end after the 2026 midterm elections. A former Tennessee state senator and an emergency physician, Green was first elected to Congress in 2018. He became chairman of the Homeland Security panel in his third term in 2023, and he led House Republicans’ impeachment of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Green is also a retired Army flight surgeon. He was involved in the raid that captured former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, and he interrogated him after his capture, according to his House biography. In 2017, Green was Trump’s pick to be Army secretary in his first term, but he withdrew his name from consideration following a backlash after his past controversial statements on LGBT issues, Islam and evolution resurfaced.
President Donald Trump has said ICE agents will head to US airports tomorrow amid a partial government shutdown. Follow for live updates
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