{"id":2513812,"date":"2025-11-23T17:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-laments-mtg-resignation-sad-to-see-her-voice-go-away\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:20:21","slug":"rand-paul-laments-mtg-resignation-sad-to-see-her-voice-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-laments-mtg-resignation-sad-to-see-her-voice-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul laments MTG resignation: &#8216;Sad to see her voice go away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frand-paul-laments-mtg-resignation-sad-to-see-her-voice-go-away%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2513812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Rand Paul expressed regret over the resignation of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, emphasizing the importance of independent voices within the Republican Party. Paul highlighted Greene&#8217;s efforts to raise questions about the Republican plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >healthcare adn underscored<\/a> the value of thinking outside the box in political discourse. Greene announced she will resign from Congress early next year after three terms, following public disagreements with former President Donald Trump over healthcare costs and other issues. Greene, who began her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-arizona-state-rep-issues-call-to-withhold-states-electoral-college-votes-to-joe-biden-due-to-significant-evidence-of-fraud\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Arizona State Rep Issues Call to Withhold State&#039;s Electoral College Votes to Joe Biden Due to Significant Evidence of Fraud\">political career<\/a> supporting Trump, stated that she often felt out of place in Washington due to her representation of the &#8220;common American.&#8221; Other Republicans, such as Rep. Thomas Massie, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-shows-woman-lighting-orthodox-church-on-fire-days-before-it-burned-to-the-ground\/\" title=\"Video Shows Woman Lighting Orthodox Church On Fire Days Before It Burned To The Ground\">expressed sadness<\/a> over her departure. Greene&#8217;s resignation will reduce the GOP&#8217;s majority in the House to 218 seats starting in January.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Rand Paul laments MTG resignation: &lsquo;Sad to see her voice go away&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2410745\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY) suggested the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Republican-Party\">Republican Party<\/a> could benefit from more voices like Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marjorie-taylor-greene\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> (R-GA) after she announced her shock resignation from Congress last week. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s important that we have independent voices. I&rsquo;m sad to see her [Greene&rsquo;s] voice go away or potentially go away. I think she brought up something the last week or so that was very important: &lsquo;What is the Republican plan for healthcare?&rsquo;&rdquo; Paul said on CBS News&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em> Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3896277\/mark-warner-criticizes-russia-ukraine-peace-proposal-as-awful\/\">Mark Warner criticizes Russia-Ukraine peace proposal as &#8216;awful&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3896053\/tillis-foreign-relations-committee-trump-ukraine-peace-proposal\/\">Tillis joins Democrats in swiping &#8216;concessions&#8217; in Trump&#8217;s Ukraine peace proposal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3894064\/deficit-hawks-thumb-nose-trump-tariff-rebate-promise\/\">Deficit hawks thumb their nose at Trump&#8217;s $2,000 tariff rebate promise<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;But that&rsquo;s what an independent voice will help in our country &mdash; an independent voice within the Republican caucus &mdash; not to see things always inside the box, but to think of some out of the box solutions. So I think independent voices are important in the Republican Party,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3249730&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=3b89a86002647166ddf31a9705867d04\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Greene announced she will resign from Congress at the beginning of next year after serving for three terms. That announcement came shortly after she publicly feuded with President Donald Trump over healthcare costs and the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was initially Greene&rsquo;s motivation for getting into politics. Greene began her political career as an elector on Trump&rsquo;s behalf and won her first election in 2020, taking office right around the time of the Jan. 6 riots. Greene would later defend the Jan. 6 protesters and Trump ultimately pardoned all of them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I&rsquo;ve always been despised in Washington, D.C., and never fit in,&rdquo; Greene said in her resignation <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mtgreenee\/status\/1992035608387039359?s=20\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3896317\/crockett-mtg-not-being-able-take-heat-from-trump\/\"><strong>CROCKETT CALLS OUT MTG FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO &lsquo;TAKE THE HEAT&rsquo; FROM TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) also <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3896073\/massie-mtg-resignation-very-sad-for-country\/\">lamented Greene&rsquo;s resignation<\/a>, saying he was &ldquo;very sad for our country but also happy for my friend Marjorie.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the House will be down to a 218-seat majority once Greene departs the lower chamber in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul regrets MTG&#8217;s exit: &#8216;Sad to lose her voice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2513813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rand-paul-mtg.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[67546,32171,38952],"class_list":["post-2513812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-mtg-resignation","tag-political-commentary","tag-rand-paul"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rand-paul-mtg.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513816,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513812\/revisions\/2513816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}