U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Friday she won’t challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms, delivering relief for some Republicans who worry she’s too divisive to win.
In a lengthy post on the social media platform X, Greene disputed GOP donors and consultants who fear she would turn off the moderate Republicans and independents needed to beat Ossoff. But Greene said she doesn’t want to serve in a Senate that “doesn’t work” and that she said is dominated by lawmakers hostile to grassroots Trump supporters and unwilling to shake up the status quo.
“If I’m going to fight for a team, it will only be a team willing to lay it all on the line to save this country,” she wrote.
Bingo. She’s won three terms, so six years of being a rep, which means she gets the retirement and healthcare (the federal option, which she would pay the premiums for, in fairness) for life. The formula calculates out somewhere between $17-20k once she turns 62 in another nine years. Not a lot, but a very decent chunk to add to everything else.
Add in everything from the typical republican grifts and why would she bother anymore?
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL30631
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-congress-benefits/
She recently made $20 million. She gets to participate in insider trading and she gets mountains of cash thrown at her every time she does something performative, like jeering at Biden during the SOTUA.