Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation as Director of National Intelligence to care for her husband, Abraham Williams, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. According to Fox News Digital and a report distributed by ANI, Gabbard met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to relay her decision; her resignation is scheduled to take effect on June 30.
Gabbard said she must step away from public service ‘‘to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,’’ and she thanked the president for the opportunity to lead the intelligence community. She also pledged to help ensure a smooth transition before leaving office.
During her roughly 18 months as DNI, Gabbard pursued a series of changes to the intelligence apparatus. Reporting says she sought to downsize parts of the community, ended diversity, equity and inclusion programs within intelligence agencies, and directed the declassification of more than half a million pages of government records covering topics that included the Trump-Russia investigation and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
The reports also say Gabbard created a ‘‘Weaponisation Working Group’’ to coordinate interagency efforts around alleged misuse of government institutions during the Biden administration. Fox News Digital further reported that, under her oversight, the National Counterterrorism Center took actions in 2025 that prevented over 10,000 people with alleged links to narco-terrorism from entering the United States and added more than 85,000 such individuals to a terrorism watchlist.
The account above is based on syndicated reporting from Fox News Digital and ANI.
