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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, saying she must leave to support her husband, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. She will depart by June 30, making her the fourth Cabinet member to leave Trump’s second term. Aaron Lukas will serve as acting DNI. The move comes amid long-standing tensions over foreign policy and Iran-related decisions during Gabbard’s tenure.
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as President Trump's director of national intelligence, effective June 30, 2026, citing her husband's cancer and need to step away; she is the fourth cabinet official to depart during Trump's second term amid ongoing debates over Iran and intelligence leadership.
Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence, citing her husband’s cancer diagnosis, making her the fourth Trump-era cabinet departure; Acting DNI Aaron Lukas will take over as the administration continues to navigate leadership changes and foreign-policy debates.
Tulsi Gabbard resigns as the US director of national intelligence, effective June 30, citing her husband’s bone cancer diagnosis and a desire to support him. Aaron Lukas will serve as acting DNI. Trump called her service outstanding, and Gabbard, a Trump ally, led coordination across intelligence agencies as US actions continued in Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela.
The Bulwark's Will Saletan argues that Tulsi Gabbard, appointed by Donald Trump as director of national intelligence, has shifted from evidence-based threat assessment to claiming only the president can declare imminent threats, contrasting her past cautions on North Korea and the Soleimani strike with a 2025 stance that aligned with Trump’s Iran-war narrative and her later public acquiescence to presidential decision-making, a move the piece frames as a step toward autocracy.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard defended her presence at a Fulton County, Georgia FBI search of the 2020 ballots as coordinating intelligence on election security, but former officials and election-law experts say the DNI lacks law-enforcement authority for such operations, highlighting fears of blurring lines between domestic politics and intelligence and prompting calls for congressional testimony while the White House defends the move.