House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green announces retirement from Congress for private sector job

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced Monday he will resign from the lower chamber once it votes on the reconciliation package again to take a job in the private sector.

Green, who was first elected to the chamber in 2018, has been serving in the lead post on the Homeland Security committee since 2023. He helped orchestrate the impeachment of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024.

The chairman, who previously expected to resign from Congress last year, did not state who he supported to replace him. He also did not state what the private sector job would be.

"It was the honor of a lifetime to represent the people of Tennessee in Congress," Green said in a 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. Along the way, we passed historic tax cuts, worked with President [Donald] Trump to secure the border, and defended innocent life."

Green also reflected on his career in the military, where he served in the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

"I have often remarked on the strength of the men and women I have served with," Green said. "I know that the integrity, decency, and faith of the American people are what powered us for the first 250 years, and will power us for another 250 and beyond."

Green added that his retirement comes because he has completed his mission in Congress by overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package. 

"I have no doubt that my colleagues in this Congress will continue to strengthen the cause of freedom. May God bless them, and the United States of America," he concluded.

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