Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Thursday, November 27th. Today on Forbes, how Marjorie

Taylor Green locked in her taxpayer-funded pension for life. Representative Marjorie Taylor

Green has rarely shied away from speaking her mind. First rising onto the political scene as

Maga's Q&on conspiracy spouting congressional

candidate, she quickly established herself as a Donald Trump loyalist and right-wing bombthrower once in

office. Even after breaking with Trump, most prominently regarding the release of the Epstein files,

Green, who was 51 years old, was one of four Republican

representatives who bucked their party to get a bill to do so to a vote. She announced her

resignation from Congress with a hand grenade of a statement, saying, quote, it's all so absurd and

completely unsurious. I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and

gets better. The fiery rhetoric might lead one to assume that her resignation is effective immediately.

In fact, her last day in office will be January 5, 26, over a month away. One potential reason

she is hanging on for a bit longer, enduring the

president's ire and the possible threats to personal safety that sometimes follow, it ensures

that she will be in office for more than five years, locking in a bare minimum congressional

pension. Taxpayers will pay green $725 per month, or about $8,700 annually, starting in

2036, Forbes estimates, which translates to a present value of a bit over $40,000. Not that she needs

the money, which we'll get to in a minute. Her payout will be adjusted each year for inflation.

The National Taxpayers Union, which published numbers similar to Forbes's, estimates that her

lifetime payout from the pension will likely be upwards of $260,000. But if she decides to leave

office just three days earlier on January 2 2026, she'll get zero,

Zilch, NADA.

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